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Don’t look back… The Heart Corporation announced today that it was going to sell or close the San Francisco Chronicle. This means that San Francisco could lose its largest and most powerful newspaper. The Chronicle lost $50 million last...
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Can’t see the forest….. In 1450, Europe suffered its first major energy crisis. It ran out of wood. For more than 2,000 years Europeans had depended upon the seemingly endless forests of Europe to provide them with all they...
Read moreRight Facts, Wrong Conclusion
Columnist and writer Michael Kinsley in the New York Times today opines, You Can’t Sell News by the Slice. Kinsley, like everyone else, is grappling with the search for the Holy Grail of how to keep newspapers alive.
Read moreA Case for a “King of News”?
Capable of seeing all sides of an argument… For many years now, I have been a resident of two countries, the USA and the UK. That ‘duality’ has taught me to look at the world from several perspectives at...
Read moreThe First Internet
The newspaper business is in trouble. But it's not becasue newspapers don't have value. But I am not so sure that the 'value' is in the news. Maybe it's something else.
Read moreWhere Are Your Priorities?
1959 Caddy. But does democracy hinge on this? Washington, it seems, is not prepared to let the auto industry and Detroit go down the tubes. The bail out is going to happen, even if the White House has to...
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And we had 70% market share…. The Day of Reckoning has arrived. Or at least it has started. Sam Zell’s Tribune Company goes Chapter 11. The New York Times is so close to the edge that it has to...
Read moreThe New Star Ledger
[blip.tv ?posts_id=1543020&dest=-1] Star Ledger VJ Andre Malok’s tour de force. Take a look at the quality of the reporting, the shooting, the editing. The whole package. The Newark Star Ledger is recreating itself as a digital content provider. It’s...
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noytnvRxcTg&hl=en&fs=1[/youtube] A shy New Jersey chiaropractor suffers a stroke on a golf course, and his life is suddenly transformed. He can’t stop making art. We were out in Newark this week at a mass meeting to talk about new...
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