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The News Business Is Dead; Long Live The News Business
from the heard-it-all-before dept The New Yorker is running a longish piece about the state of the newspaper industry. It's a decent read, though it doesn't cover any new ground. Newspapers are dying, industry vets are fretting and whining, the internet is rising, but doing so in a different way — a more opinionated, more community-oriented way. There you go. The entire 6,500 word piece in one sentence. What's most amazing to me is how the folks who are complaining and whining about it all can't seem to [...]
NBC Nightly News Pounds Another Nail In Dailies’ Coffin
Even NBC Nightly News has finally caught on to the certain death of the daily newspaper industry. Last night, Brian Williams and NBC Nightly News ran a story on the rapid decline of the dailies and the almost certain death towards which they are marching. The story focused on the Palm Beach papers and the [...]
NEWS?
I'm not sure what's happened to the business I once loved. Once upon a time, television news was about . . . well . . . news. Important issues. Providing viewers with information they needed to make intelligent decisions about events and issues that impacted their lives. Today, not so much. Unless you call the celebrity worship and fluff we peddle important. There's some heavy shit going down these days. Forget politics and the presidential horserace for a minute. We've got a war, a healthcare crisis, the [...]
Airline Woes Could Cripple US Economy, Study Shows
Bad news and dire predictions continue for air travel " Oil-fueled catastrophe in the airline industry would cripple US economy and eliminate US jobs, study reveals " is a ponderous title for an Internet post, but it is the gist of a feature on a travel site called eTurbo News. It cited a Business Travel Coalition study equally ominously and equally ponderously called "“Beyond the Airlines’ $2 Can of Coke: Catastrophic Impact on the US Economy from Oil-price Trauma in the Airline Industry" that [...]
Where are the SEOs?
I have not published any fresh news for a while. Sorry about that, but I have been really busy with client work for Christmas... Talking about Christmas, the festive season is also starting, which mean a bit less time in front of the computer and more time to socialise and meet people in your industry. If you are looking for a job or looking for new employees, it is probably a good time to meet people in a relaxed athmosphere.The Australian industry is not huge, but there are plenty of places to meet your [...]
TOP THREE CHAINS FOR 2007
I have already given you my two top buffet restaurants for 2007. I thought that you would find it interesting to see what the restaurant industry picks are. Restaurants and Institutions Magazine and website is the restaurant industries trade resource reporting on industry news, trends, and consumer opinions. In September 2007, based on extensive consumer survery, Restaurants and Institutions [...]
Turdpolishing
Everyone knows that the journalism industry ain't what it used to be. Rather than tuning in to a grandpa-like figure narrating the day's events as the family gathered around the television, we are regularly handed a collection of stories meant to entertain rather than inform. To quote a former colleague , the audience is often times handed a "polished turd" and told that it's news. That being said, I present to you the following. In return, I ask only that you write a 15-20 page annotated report on the [...]
Thoughts on Recent EMI Music Industry News: Emi No Longer Backing RIAA
As you may have heard, recent reports indicate that music conglomerate EMI is pulling back its funding for the somewhat controversial RIAA and similar organizations. This is old news of course, being reported way back on November 29th, but perhaps you missed it if you only glance through the media’s often uninteresting music [...]
FOX NEWS STILL FEATURES PENTAGON PUNDITS
Even after the New York Times revealed the military analysts seen on cable news stations are for most part making money off the war as lobbyists or on Board of defense contractors, FOX NEWS continues to give military analysts face time without any disclosure as to their ties to the defense industry. And Fox is still airing -- without disclosure -- two of the exposed pundits, Robert H. Scales and Thomas McInerney. See them for yourself . The New York Times publishes an exposé on the hidden ties between [...]
Dataquest: Technical Writing -- Then and Now
One of my articles titled, "Technical Writing -- Then and Now" was published in the June 15 issue of DATAQUEST magazine. You can refer the same at http://www.dqindia.com/content/spotlight/2007/107062102.aspAbout DATAQUEST: On the chessboard of the Indian IT industry, and in the corridors of IT-enabled enterprises in India, Dataquest stands tall since 1982. A 20-year-old institution with a spotless image of non-partisan, credible and useful information for vendor and user communities alike, DATAQUEST has [...]