To comments by my boss’s boss’s boss’s boss (I think that’s how far I’m removed from the executive editor). Many voters ignored editorials from some newspapers that told voters to oppose the recall, said Susan Goldberg, executive editor of the…
Category: Industry commentary
Someday Bush…
… is gonna run out of regions with regional media interested in peddling his line.
Why we used to read E&P for the ads
Because they’d run dumb one-source stories like this and wonder why we (you know, all those skeptical journalists) had no respect for them. What they did in this case was haul out the Rolodex and get Larry Sabato, the professional…
Aussie tech follies
Australian tech editor Nathan Cochrane, newly linked here over the weekend, has something bordering on an expose at his blog — it’s a deeply skeptical look at an alleged miracle video-streaming technology that could either bring Hollywood to its knees…
Jay Rosen
Has interesting comments on how the press can dish it out but can’t take it. That is, we’re all about asking everybody else all the tough questions, but when the tables are turned on us we turn into a jabbering…
Gettin’ tough on the boss
Wall Street Journal newsies are stickin’ it to the Man, who’s trying to impose a lot of stuff on ’em they’d just as soon not have to put up with. Among the union’s get-tough tactics: The angry union members have…
Welcome to Arnieland
Well, they’ve done it. Elected Arnold Schwarzenegger governor of California. Ken, who sits next to me and is the rare desk hand old enough to have been of voting age when Ronald Reagan became governor of this state, insists his…
Finally a good idea from Time Warner
They’re freezing the salaries of managers and executives. Actually this is not exactly good news, because the bosses are always the last to take the hit, and when they’re suffering, everbody else is suffering worse.
Why newspapers are toast, Vol. XXXIV
Gannett all the sudden has discovered that local news is where it’s at. I don’t even have to read this article to know nary an extra penny will be invested in news hole or news staff. And you don’t have…
Back under the radar
Wasn’t that some fun we had yesterday? Got a bit of notice from the Romenesko link … visitor count quadrupled but the numbers are still a dribble: 160 visits Wednesday, 640 on Thursday. My gut feeling is people are sick…