Category: Industry commentary

Shade-tree journalism

Well, I have to weigh in on the who-edits-the-blogs affair; after all the world wants to know what the editor’s blog blogmeister thinks, right? I’ll draw an analogy: Ed Gilmore, my stepfather, worked for 30 years as a corporate jet…

Rosen on Bee blogs

The Sacramento Bee is getting hipdeep in blogging, and lately it’s been scraping some of the mud off its pantlegs. Jay Rosen has a nice accounting of it all.

Payback is something that rhymes with snitch

Poison Kitchen links to the case of an author who feels a reporter wrote stuff he said that was off the record. His revenge: revealing embarrassing personal information about the reporter.

OK, another Krugman story

This one in a UK newspaper. One of the things he mentions in an interview is how members of the U.S. press seem unequipped to deal with the possibility that their leaders are blatantly lying to them. I wonder if…

Discarded by the news industry

… Now living out of his pickup truck. This is a near heartbreaking story of a 60ish reporter can’t find work and has been essentially camping out for more than a year. The real pathos emerges from the fact that…

Obligatory Krugman link

What gets me about Paul Krugman is how brilliant he is, and yet how often he oversimplifies complex topics. Nevertheless he does coin the occasional zinger. I liked this one especially. “There’s a confusion between objectivity and even-handedness, they are…

Wanna find out how a company feels about its employees?

Just take a look at how it negotiates with its unions. One of their favorite tricks: The complaint also said that Dow Jones declared that nonunion employees will receive wage increases, while union-represented employees won’t. If giving raises only to…

The elephant in the room…

… isn’t getting any younger. “Newspaper readers are dying off faster than circulation departments can find new subscribers,” said analyst John Morton. And someday John Morton will die and there will be nobody to quote on the fate of the…