On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
The news "industry" is in as much a quandary as the music and film industries. It's a model that depends heavily on news as entertainment.
That's a dilemma I discussed in some depth in a post that appears to have
gotten buried, in terms of a conversation with a Washington Post reporter. "Infotainment" is an example of a safe short term managerial choice for that industry: it brings readership and keeps the advertisers coming.
Earlier this month my friends were laughing whe NYT actually ran a headline to assure readers that the world wouldn't end in 2012. Part of that laughter enjoyed the absurdity while part of it was nervous for the future of that newspaper.
-Durova