New York Times
October 31, 2009
- The so-called mainstream media, once defined as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal and the three major network TV stations, no longer have a monopoly on the opinion making process in American life. Why belabor the obvious? We all know why. Eyeballs are migrating to the Internet, that vast endless, timeless cloud of ...
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October 21, 2009
- I like the tussle of digital world commmenting, as nasty and angry and messy as it can get. There are also endless tips, suggestions, ideas and other useful things in comments sections that may be bad for the ego but good for journalism. I've tried to have a fairly transparent inbox on this blog and have responded both to commenters and to people whose names show up in the post itself. Today, the ...
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October 20, 2009
- While I've been paying a bit of attention lately to the local stage to try to do my part in making sure we don't have another disastrous four years under Governor Jon Corzine (especially since I unfortunately did my part to put him IN office by voting for him), the national circus has continued. Rather than a long-winded tirade today, let's just do a tally, shall we?$6,700 - The amount of ...
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October 20, 2009
- There's not a whole lot Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley and I have in common. There's that prize, for one thing. She's extraordinarily tall, I'm extraordinarily short. Even our names are of wildly different lengths - I've got her whole 10-digit name beat with my hyphenated last name alone.But there are at least two things we do have in common. 1) I remember reading once ...
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October 19, 2009
- As I sifted through the stacks of newspapers that piled up over the week, it all added up to some pretty depressing publishing news (as for what’s going on in the rest of the world, let’s not even go there). First I read this NY Times story about price wars, which notes that Wal-Mart and Amazon will be offering new hardcover releases at $8.99 this holiday season. This is, in so many ways, a ...
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October 6, 2009
- The death of Gourmet magazine is a big, sucking wound for all those consultants advising the panicked print industry to go niche, baby, go niche. As though we haven't been hearing that since the 1980s. But even as we bury another paper publication, this one high end and historically choking with the most delicious verticals (food/wine) and attractive demographics, count on the New York Times to ...
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October 1, 2009
- Many of us are thinking about dieting because we feel like bloated, unhealthy, repulsive blobs. The question is, what’s the best diet for me? Or, for that matter, you? There are actually more diets available today then there are human beings on the planet, leading to considerable confusion on the covers of women’s magazines. What’s a dieter to do?The Daily Sam would like to help. But ...
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September 28, 2009
- Is it possible that the future of real journalism is in the form of a non-profit entity? It appears to be the latest approach given that approximately eight to ten non-profit journalism or news outlets have sprung up around the country: ProPublica in New York, The Voice of San Diego, Texas Tribune, Minnesota Post and others. The question is, are these forms of journalism outlets sustainable? ...
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September 27, 2009
- Another good one bites the dust. If you're not familiar with William Safire's ON LANGUAGE columns, you're simply not as good a writer as you could be. Period. He was also a take-no-prisoners -type of columnist-- and one who backed up his opinions with carefully researched fact. No "nabob" he, Mr. Safire will be missed by those who savor both finely honed writing and the practice ...
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September 19, 2009
- In case any of you believe that I've been kidnapped by facebook, quit writing, or ran away to live on the beach in Moorea (although that's always a possibility), let me update you that I've been busy writing. Today an essay of mine was accepted by the NYTimes. I'll keep you all posted on the publication date. It will not be in MODERN LOVE. It will be in the science/health section. One ...
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