Too Much of a Good Thing
The Craigslist of its day…. On December 27, 1530, Francisco Pizarro set out with 27 horses and 180 men for South America. Two years later, he conquered the 800 year old Inca Empire, population 12 million or so. A...
Read moreThe Lucky Sperm Club
Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. Publisher – New York Times; President Lucky Sperm Club, NY Chapter Here’s an interesting statistic: In 1870, 80% of the land in England was owned by 7,000 families. The vast majority of it was in the...
Read moreDarwinian Journalism
The book that changed the world…. Journalism is a living species. And like any living species, it feeds. Â So long as it can feed, it survives. Journalism’s food is audience – readers or viewers. The pond was once a...
Read moreWhy Journalism Failed
The last bastion of Feudalism in the US If you went to Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, the odds are you could just as easily have gone to Columbia University’s Law School instead. Had you gone there, however,...
Read moreMurdoch vs. Galileo
And that’s the way it is….. On August 25, 1609, four hundred years ago, Galileo Galilei demonstrated his telescope to Venetian lawmakers.  A few months later he would publish Siderius Nuncias, his support for the Copernican heliocentric theory –...
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.
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