DISQUS

Mike · 2 years ago

I see the newspaper industry decentralizing, just as the recording and movie industries are heading towards.

For example, one of my favorite blogs to read is Daring Fireball. John Gruber doesn't write for a newspaper, and as far as I know, never has. And his writing kicks the crap out of most tech sections in newspapers (though David Pogue, in the New York Times, is another great read).

The fact that Daring Fireball has an article every few days, and smaller linked pieces daily, makes it more appealing to me. I read things the day they happened, not the day afterwards. And, he makes great use of RSS, which is a bandwagon I've only seen newspapers hop on recently.

Heck, the LA Times requires you to register an account with them to read an article. The New York Times requires an account for articles a couple of weeks old, and a *paid* account for articles that aren't really recent. That's stupid.

Either newspapers need to pick up the best bloggers, or the good journalists need to get their own blog going, and develop a following. What's nice about a revolution of an industry like this is, the people who have finally worked out how to do a crappy job *and* somehow fit in and just get their pay, are typically left behind in the shuffle.

webomatica · 2 years ago

Hey mike, yeah, the more I think about stuff like this, it can be said that "old media" meaning the music industry, movies, print, heck even television, are all facing the same challenge of getting up to the level of media access the consumer is at.