February 18, 2010
February 17, 2010
September 14, 2009
Google Releases "Fast-Flip" News-Reading Service
Google Fast-flip is an attempt to bring the news-browsing speed and ease of print formats to the web. I don’t know if anyone will use it after the novelty wears off, but it’s interesting (and a little fun).
October 29, 2008
Christian Science Paper to End Daily Print Edition
Get used to it. In a few years, we’ll all be the old fogeys explaining to kids how we used to read our news on paper. Every day we’d just throw the old one away and they’d send us a new one. Actually, it sounds funny to me already…
February 28, 2008
January 3, 2008
"You Don't Understand Our Audience"
This is a great piece by former Dateline NBC correspondent John Hockenberry about exactly what’s gone wrong with television news. Namely, that they try to attract viewers with entertainment at the expense of actual news.
From the article:
“Sometimes entertainment actually drove selection of news stories. Since Dateline was the lead-in to the hit series Law & Order on Friday nights, it was understood that on Fridays we did crime.”
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