News You Can’t Make Up, Unless You are Facebook
A fully functional adult stressing about the availability of a particular lipstick says too much about Facebook’s opinion of the average user.
Tagged: news
The Media, or Try Consuming News Like A Grown Adult
The lazy caterwauling about “The Media” rings hollow because we as a people have never had more options as media consumers.
The Salt Lake Tribune Officially Becomes 501(c)(3) Nonprofit
The “nonprofit” theory of how to save legacy media is about to get a real world test case.
New Day for Evening News?
The sign of the times isn’t so much that Cronkite’s seat is changing hands yet again, but that CBS feels the need to explain why the format matters at all.
Rating the Mueller Report
The ratings are in for the Mueller report reveal, and after two years of angst and hype they were…
Should We All Read Less News?
While I will likely not eschew reading the news altogether, I have certainly become a more judicious consumer of it in recent times.
In Which I Change My Mind About Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Burt Likko was going to offer a mild criticism of The Notorious RBG. Then he thought again.
A Vast Silence
The New York Times ran a story that took Burt Likko’s breath away in outrage when he read it last night. But apparently, he’s pretty much the only one.
Russia Takes Another Step On A Long Road
Two punk rock artists are released from a prison in Siberia. Do we still care? Burt Likko thinks we should.
Stop Consuming News Media
Taylor Jacobson argues that the best way to deal with the modern news media is to ignore it completely.
The Evolving Nature of the News Beast
I agree with Paul Krugman when he writes, “We know what Ferguson is going to do…But what is Newsweek going to do?” While the immediate controversy surrounded a less than esteemed Ivy League Professor...
From the inbox
A reader writes, in response to this post by Barrett: … you might want to mention my experience about how the liberal media and publishing bubble actually helps empower the Breitbarts of the world....
do unto others
Reuters takes the opposite approach from the AP or NewsCorp. Good for them. Writes Chris Aheam:
quote of the day
“I’d gladly pay $5a month to have the NYT delivered to me via the magic of the Internet. If this were 1995. Back then, the prospect of getting “the best newspaper in the world”...
saving newspapers – off the top of my head edition
Freddie and Will have both written about the impending doom of the newspapers. I’m not sure I share their skepticism – after all, so long as there is a demand for news, there will...
