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  • A real Missed Connection: Craigslist saves print and stands to profit even more?

    June 15, 2009

    • Craigslist is saving newspapers!I respectfully disagree with Arianna Huffington's claim this week that Craig helped her kill print journalism.Just as Prohibition handed over the lucrative liquor trade to the Bronfmans and the Kennedys, rabid law enforcement agents are chasing the equally lucrative classified sex ads from craigslist back to old-fashioned newsprint businesses nervy enough to keep ...
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  • The Romance of Paper

    June 9, 2009

    • The San Francisco Chronicle just finished a 144-day retrospective of its first 144 years. It was fascinating and fun, but it also begged a question: why celebrate 144 years? Why not wait for 150? Is there some special, local significance to 144? No. It's just that the Chronicle may not survive to 150. It's not even guaranteed to make 145. The death of print surely isn't as imminent as many ...
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  • Another newspaper editor bites the dust, or the Times are changing

    February 24, 2009

    • Sadly, my current editor at the Capitol Hill Times in Seattle just lost his job.  He now joins an increasingly long line of good journalists in my hometown being shuffled into new professions by the current economic shakeup of the business.  Besides a retrenching of the community newspapers, our second-largest daily shuts down this week. Not a good time to be a journalist looking for  ...
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  • Nice work, Gov. Blagojevich. Really.

    December 9, 2008

    • Two big holiday season cheers to floppy-haired Ilinois governor Rod Blagojevich for giving us faith again. Just when we thought we couldn't squeeze out one more drop of righteous indignation. Just when continuing big executive financial sector bonuses and automaker private jet rides threatened another one of those stupid "Death Of Irony" moments, along comes Mr. Blagojevich to remind ...
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  • Another One Bites the Dust

    July 24, 2008

    • Today at Ghost Word, Frances Dinkelspiel reports extensively on what's happening to the Los Angeles Times. A while back there was talk of the death of the novel. Well, that never happened, and I seriously doubt it will anytime in the near future. Who knows, we may all go Kindle, but I do believe the novel is alive and well for a long time coming.The death of newspapers, however, is real, and it ...
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