What might a “taxonomy of new-media animals” look like after the great Darwinian shake out? Check out this forecast by Matt Pressman at Vanity Fair’s Politics & Power blog. No surprise: he gives the “Inky mammoth” species poor chances of survival.
Uh oh, looks like someone’s stuck in reverse. Must be a slow day on the global warming “media stunner” watch if Romm’s picking over a three-week old interview, as if it was a fresh scab. I guess he didn’t read part one and part two of this colorful memo from one of his Grist colleagues.
The Washington Post talks with Jeff Jarvis, leading new media maven. Money quote: WP: In all the bad news for newspapers stories, there’s always a lot of nostalgia. JJ: Horses are very nice. Cars belch pollution and get us into the mess of the oil economy. But we’re not going back to horses.
I haven’t seen State of Play yet, but this review essay by Alyssa Rosenberg at the Atlantic makes some interesting observations about the journalistic enterprise. Two are worth highlighting. The first is on the humanness of reporters: In a climate in which reporters are expected to be as detached as jurors, and against the backdrop…Continue Reading…
Kos is kidding himself: In the unlikely and tragic event that every single newspaper went out of business today, we’d have little problem replacing them as a source of information. Sure you would. Here’s the problem with his metric: Just because a link from his survey didn’t lead to a documented primary or secondary newspaper…Continue Reading…
Attention all fellow bloggy bottom-feeders, Slate’s Jack Shafer has got your back: Borrowing, sponging, lifting, scrounging, leaching, pinching, and outright theft of other publications’ work is firmly in the American journalistic tradition.
On the Media’s Bob Garfield recently discussed the NY Times magazine’s Freeman Dyson profile with Joe Romm. You can count on Romenesko to capture the best moment in the exchange: ROMM: What The New York Times Magazine has done is elevate Dyson to a very high degree of credibility as a highly credible source on…Continue Reading…
As the newspaper industry continues to crumble all around us, as papers continue to slash staff and/or close down entirely, the burning question remains: During the time it takes to create a new sustainable model, who will cover your community, your local government, the people that fall between the cracks of society, the agencies and…Continue Reading…
UPDATE: Big mistake on my part, for reading past the part in Romm’s post where he says he recently debated Morano. The perils of speed reading. Good lesson I have just learned. Still, my larger point holds: Romm was curiously moved to write his post after he debated Morano. Why? It’s not like Morano’s history…Continue Reading…
Andy Revkin loves to stir the pot. Recriminations from predictable quarters are bound to pour in soon.