In his last story for the Post, staff writer Linton Weeks started the first paragraph of his story with these letters…GOODBYEREADERSMust have gotten the buy-out he was looking for.
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, HUFFINGTON POST
The growth of New Media journalism will be a hybrid combining the best aspects of traditional print newspapers with the best of what the Web brings to the table. We’re getting a glimpse into this with the many changes afoot at Old Media places like the The New York Times, and from New Media players like, well, like the Huffington Post.The online vs. print debate is totally obsolete. It’s as musty as the old barroom argument about Ginger vs. Mary Ann. It’s 2008, why not have a three-way? (emphasis mine) Traditional media have ADD: They are far too quick to drop a story. Online journalists, meanwhile, tend to have OCD—we chomp down on a story, refusing to move on until we’ve gotten down to the marrow.
The shifting dynamic between the forces of print and online reminds me of Sarah Connor and the T-101 in The Terminator. At first, the visitor from the future (digital) seemed intent on killing Sarah (print). But as the relationship progressed, the Terminator became Sarah and her son’s one hope for salvation. Today, you can almost hear digital media (which for some reason has a thick Austrian accent) saying to print: “Come with me if you want to live!”
Under the terms of the settlement, NAR will repeal its anticompetitive policies and require affiliated multiple listing services (MLSs) to repeal their rules that were based on these policies. NAR will enact a new policy
that guarantees that Internet-based brokerage companies will not be treated differently than traditional brokers. Under the new policy, brokers participating in a NAR-affiliated MLS will not be permitted to withhold
their listings from brokers who serve their customers through virtual office websites (VOWs). In addition, brokers will be able to use VOWs to educate consumers, make referrals, and conduct brokerage services. Such
brokers will not be excluded from MLS membership based on their business model. NAR will report to the Department any allegations of noncompliance.
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/public/real_estate/index.htm
Every newspaper has a web channel. Why not expand that and offer a classified web channel featuring video of sellers and their items?
Ebay did it with great results in France.
I can visualize setting up a day or two and folks bring in their items and do 10-15 seconds referring to ad in newspaper. Or putting their video on Youtube.com and the newspaper embeds the video.
How cool would that be?
Myrtle Beach thinks those little ads in the back of the paper use up too much newsprint, so they are dropping them from their editions on Monday and Tuesday.
“the region’s largest classified inventory available anywhere” will be available on MyrtleBeachOnline.com.
Says the V.P. and Editor Trisha O’Connor.
What? The editor decides to drop advertising? Those little ads are usually sold for multiple day runs - 7, 14, 30 days, etc. There is some lost revenue in this plan. Unless her classified department is a dud and doesn’t have ANY ads on Monday or Tuesday.
Not hard to believe that an editor doesn’t think those little ads are readership items either. When the rest of the newspaper is very small, the importance of those little ads as readership is multiplied dramatically.
Before I’d kill classified ads in Monday and Tuesday in print, I’d give them away. Unless readership isn’t important to Editor O’Connor.
Here are your choices on places to cut back to pay for higher gas prices.
It’s not even close is it.
This guy just cracks me up. I couldn’t get by this paragraph without wiping the tears from my eyes from laughing so hard.
The plan I have in mind would call upon the richest institutions to set aside 3 percent of their endowments to buy The New York Times. That’s for a start. Additional purchases of other newspapers by other endowments should follow.
I scanned the rest of the piece only to gaze upon this jewel of wisdom.
Although other newspapers are worthy of rescue, no newspaper is more important to national discourse than The New York Times, …
The guy needs to be writing for Jon Stewart.OMG, I had to go back and read the whole thing because near the end it just gets more hilarious.Forget Stewart, this piece is right out of The Onion.Get this:
As owners, the institutions would not get involved in setting editorial policy, directing coverage of higher education, or in any other news or business matter.
Bwaahhahahahaha, chortle, choke.UPDATE: The discourse on men in plaid is dealt with by the NYT.
The Bowling Green city manager issued a policy that forbids smoking in city parks, except for the golf courses.
But he goes on to explain, the city won’t enforce it. He says he doesn’t want the vastly overworked city employees to turn into “smoking police.” He wants the citizens to just do the right thing and is depending on peer pressure to keep people from smoking in parks. But it’s OK to smoke on sidewalks?
The policy won’t apply to sidewalks but will to shared-use trail, DeFebbo said.
“It covers Greenways, because those are linear parks,” he said.
While the “most egregious violations” will be liable to prosecution, in general the city expects to rely on smokers’ politeness and peer pressure from nonsmoking park users to enforce the policy, rather than assigning already-busy employees to look for smokers, DeFebbo said.
“We’re not going to become ‘smoke police,’ ” he said.
Then why make the policy? Is it like the ordinance against spitting on the sidewalk that is currently in effect? Is it like the sign ordinance that currently isn’t enforced?
This is not the actions of a good manager: make a policy, then announce it won’t be enforced. This is the mark of a politician. If the commissioners told him to make this change it was never discussed in public.
These are the kind of actions a city manager takes so that somebody (mayor/commission) can take credit for without taking official action.
I’ve written emails to six newspaper reporters over the past two weeks and have not gotten one response. Not one.They have been small to mid-size newspapers. (20-50,000 circulation.) I’m not talking about a blog post comment, I’m talking about a personalized email about a subject they have written about.They all can’t be assholes can they?I think it’s just laziness. Here’s my tip: If you are a reporter and get an email from a reader.Reply: Thanks for reading and writing. Send.
