You know the old saying: When you owe the bank $1,000 - and can't pay - you have a problem. When you owe the bank $486 million - and can't pay - the bank has a problem. This week, The Star …
Most-read, or most-reviled?
William Lobdell, who previously wrote a trenchant and sadly accurate critique of the state of papers in general and the LA Times in particular, has looked at the "Most popular" feature at local web …
Did news media fail us at a critical moment?
Two clear thinkers about journalism reach a similar conclusion: at best, the mainstream media contributed little to the understanding of the current economic situation. At worst, they repeated the …
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A daily folds
A very wan "Yay" I just collected thirty-four fake dollars by correctly forecasting that this would be the year that a daily paper would shut down. Jeff Jarvis posted the question a while back …
A right-sized newspaper
At my local Starbucks this morning, I noticed this: It's one sheet of newsprint, folded to about six-inches square, focused on one topic, published once a week, distributed free. To a …
Imagine if a mainstream site acknowledged the existence of blogs
Tip of the hat to the folks at bthesite.com for including prominent links out to Baltimore based and Baltimorecentric blogs in the main well of the recently redesigned site. (Disclosure: I helped …
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