Comments on: When ‘best’ is not good enough http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/21/when-best-is-not-good-enough/ by Jeff Jarvis Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:08:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: 997 « dohhohh http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/21/when-best-is-not-good-enough/#comment-350197 997 « dohhohh Tue, 22 May 2007 00:08:17 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/21/when-best-is-not-good-enough/#comment-350197 [...] via buzzmachine [...] [...] via buzzmachine [...]

]]> By: bwl zwei null » So würde ich gern Zeitung lesen http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/21/when-best-is-not-good-enough/#comment-348822 bwl zwei null » So würde ich gern Zeitung lesen Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:29:36 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/21/when-best-is-not-good-enough/#comment-348822 [...] dieser Tage wieder über das Aussterben der klassischen Zeitungen bzw. deren Verlage spekuliert. Jeff Jarvis (BuzzMachine) erteilt der New York Times Ratschläge, Tim O’Reilly hört gerüchteweise, dass [...] [...] dieser Tage wieder über das Aussterben der klassischen Zeitungen bzw. deren Verlage spekuliert. Jeff Jarvis (BuzzMachine) erteilt der New York Times Ratschläge, Tim O’Reilly hört gerüchteweise, dass [...]

]]> By: CaptiousNut http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/21/when-best-is-not-good-enough/#comment-348545 CaptiousNut Sat, 21 Apr 2007 18:09:22 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/21/when-best-is-not-good-enough/#comment-348545 A business whose weakness is business management? Is that like a ball player who's good, except on offense and defense? Why don't you people admit what's really going on? You like the NYT's gospel of heathen socialism and it sucks that it has to trifle with the annoying realities of the business world. Yeah, let's "cut and run" from the Boston Globe - that will fix all of the "management" issues. I guess since NYT kool-aid drunks believe all failing Big Government social programs need just a tinkering here and there, it should come as no surprise to hear similar diagnoses for the Gray Lady. Agitprop is not a business; it's a poison and it has a half-life. A business whose weakness is business management?

Is that like a ball player who’s good, except on offense and defense?

Why don’t you people admit what’s really going on?

You like the NYT’s gospel of heathen socialism and it sucks that it has to trifle with the annoying realities of the business world. Yeah, let’s “cut and run” from the Boston Globe - that will fix all of the “management” issues. I guess since NYT kool-aid drunks believe all failing Big Government social programs need just a tinkering here and there, it should come as no surprise to hear similar diagnoses for the Gray Lady.

Agitprop is not a business; it’s a poison and it has a half-life.

]]> By: irishbill http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/21/when-best-is-not-good-enough/#comment-348544 irishbill Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:13:17 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/21/when-best-is-not-good-enough/#comment-348544 I'm a delivery foreman (union) for the Times. Dinosaur, if ever there was such a thing, eh? Mr. Feinman says, "I would imagine that a non-print newspaper would see its production costs lowered sufficiently so that they would be profitable “enough” to satisfy Wall Street." I make 90k a year, my union drivers make 60K plus overtime and diesel costs 3 bucks a gallon. Yes, I think they would lower their production costs. I'm just glad I'm retiring next year, and by then, or shortly thereafter, a truly portable, flexible, almost free reader will be available. Within 5 years the Times will be giving them away..........and so it goes....... I’m a delivery foreman (union) for the Times. Dinosaur, if ever there was such a thing, eh? Mr. Feinman says, “I would imagine that a non-print newspaper would see its production costs lowered sufficiently so that they would be profitable “enough” to satisfy Wall Street.” I make 90k a year, my union drivers make 60K plus overtime and diesel costs 3 bucks a gallon. Yes, I think they would lower their production costs. I’m just glad I’m retiring next year, and by then, or shortly thereafter, a truly portable, flexible, almost free reader will be available. Within 5 years the Times will be giving them away……….and so it goes…….

]]> By: Robert Feinman http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/21/when-best-is-not-good-enough/#comment-348533 Robert Feinman Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:33:39 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/21/when-best-is-not-good-enough/#comment-348533 Perhaps the NY Times should just be the NY Times. Do you want the Met Opera putting on rock shows (it would get a bigger audience). Do you want Ben and Jerry selling beer? Trying to turn newspapers into something else probably won't work, firms have a certain culture and changing it is almost always impossible. So isn't the issue not that they aren't being the NY Times, but that they aren't making enough money? So isn't the real question about how they can maintain their business model of lots of bureaus, reporters and coverage of culture, sports, business and news in the face of a declining audience? As I've said before if there was a viable ebook reader I would stop getting the print version. I would imagine that a non-print newspaper would see its production costs lowered sufficiently so that they would be profitable "enough" to satisfy Wall Street. Perhaps the solution will lie in new technology. Perhaps the NY Times should just be the NY Times. Do you want the Met Opera putting on rock shows (it would get a bigger audience). Do you want Ben and Jerry selling beer?

Trying to turn newspapers into something else probably won’t work, firms have a certain culture and changing it is almost always impossible. So isn’t the issue not that they aren’t being the NY Times, but that they aren’t making enough money?

So isn’t the real question about how they can maintain their business model of lots of bureaus, reporters and coverage of culture, sports, business and news in the face of a declining audience?

As I’ve said before if there was a viable ebook reader I would stop getting the print version. I would imagine that a non-print newspaper would see its production costs lowered sufficiently so that they would be profitable “enough” to satisfy Wall Street.

Perhaps the solution will lie in new technology.

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