Lots of chatter yesterday, again, about The Future, some of it precipitated by the bankruptcy filing of Sun-Times Media Group. I wound up being one of the chatterers, on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight. Regrettably, I didn’t get to use my fun fact of the day: that the 5th and 6th largest […]
Business of media
Revolutions create a curious inversion of perception. In ordinary times, people who do no more than describe the world around them are seen as pragmatists, while those who imagine fabulous alternative futures are viewed as radicals. The last couple of decades haven’t been ordinary, however. via Newspapers and Thinking the […]
Newspapers and thinking the unthinkable [Shirky]
New York Times, March 12, 2009: Some economists and newspaper executives say it is only a matter of time — and probably not much time at that — before some major American city is left with no prominent local newspaper at all. via For Papers, a Downsizing Trickle Becomes […]