Comments on: NYT’s Carr Doesn’t Understand Webworld

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Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:59:33 +0000

[...] strongest charge against Carr’s reasoning is that folks like him just don’t get the Web. What’s more, he doesn’t want to seem to engage in it: “I can’t fault him for [...]

By: howellchris

howellchris — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:16:33 +0000

I would have to agree with this blog post. The times they are a changin’. The old world you used to know is rapidly going away. One of the first things I was taught in journalism at Ohio State University was that a newspaper’s primary motive is not to spread information but to make money. Ads are what have always made newspapers possible. You don’t think that paying 50 cents for a newspaper pays for all the paper, ink, technology and people? As long as there’s a dollar to be made newspapers will be around in some form. In the 1930s and 40s radio was the king of all media. It’s not anymore, but there are still AM radio stations that make plenty of money. Newspapers have survived the changing media landscape for a hundred years. Moving pictures, radio, and television were all predicted to put newspapers out of business and didn’t.

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HorsesAss.Org » Blog Archive » A penny a click — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:23:34 +0000

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By: tgdavidson

tgdavidson — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:37:37 +0000

Al, that is such a pithy argument. Because, you know, in 10 years of line-editing at major metros, I never saw a reporter turn in copy with typos, misspellings or errors.

Please: Attack the underlying arguments based on their logic or lack thereof. Gross generalizations about “bloggers,” treating them all as a piece, is ultimately as useless – and stupid – as saying “all reporters are leftists,” or the H.L. Mencken gem, “all editors are idiots.”

(Of course, I was prone to using the latter phrase a time or three myself…)

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Trinny — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:06:52 +0000

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By: jestevens

jestevens — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:07:52 +0000

Oops. Blogger does. Fixed! Thanks.

By: aleinstein

aleinstein — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:54:58 +0000

Well,

I would pay more attention to bloggers if they could spell correctly. There. Their. Loose. Lose. Where. Were.

In the following sentence from the blog, can you guess which word was misused, and that a mainstream media copy editor would have caught?

“More importantly, he doesn’t understand the new Web medium that is replacing print, radio and TV as the world’s principle communications medium.”

Now, if a blogger doesn’t know the difference between “principle” and “principal,” what else doesn’t he know much about?