Comments on: New news

By: Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:19:57 +0000

Spencer,
Yes, I heard a CNN person trip over her tongue four times yesterday trying to remember the current cant: terrorists, militants, alleged terrorists…..

By: spencer reiss

spencer reiss — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:37:04 +0000

calling George Orwell–as of Saturday morning US eastern time, the NYT is still managing not to use the word “Islamic” or “Muslim” in ANY of its Mumbai coverage. immaculate “miliitants,” who just happen to target Americans, Brits, Jews etc–ah yes, it must be about Kashmir!

Actually call the suicide help line–this newspaper has a death wish

By: Kerry Kreiitnger

Kerry Kreiitnger — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:00:17 +0000

I support anything that pushes the 500 pund gorillas out of the way. the story below won’t run anywhere nationally, which shows how great and caring Americans are! while lesser stories go on for days.

One Million can food drive has new pledge of 10000 cans if the site gets more unique visits! KNIXcountry.com http://www.knixcountry.com/pages/promo/million-can/jump-million-cans.html

The DJs have pledged their unique visitors bonus of 10K to the 1 Million can drive. When a video of a punk running his bicycle into a wall can get a million hits why can’t we promote something that is truly for a good cause? This is the kind of change and optimism we need in America now!

I don’t think they had any idea of just how many cans that would be or the effort that it takes to round them up and deliver the cans. Hundreds of schools and businesses have kicked in and the goal is being close din on. A small push from national news could easily drive this over the edge.
thanks,
Kerry Kreitinger
Mesa Arizona

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By: Geof Dougherty

Geof Dougherty — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:57:32 +0000

I’d say half the expense is a huge overestimate. We’re kicking the hell out of the Trib and the Sun-Times on local coverage, and we’ll spend about $500,000 this year to do it.

In a perfect world, it wouldn’t be this easy, or cheap. But newspapers have sunk low enough that it doesn’t take much in the way of resources to improve on their work.

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The evolution of news | socialmediainfluence.com — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:33:18 +0000

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Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:38:21 +0000

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By: MikeS

MikeS — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:29:44 +0000

Jeff, I have some simple questions for you and I apologize if it’s been covered somewhere else on this blog: Do you think Advance Internet’s websites are well-designed? And, if you could, what would you do to improve them?

I ask because I don’t find them particularly easy or fun to use and it’s a little difficult navigating them.

Thanks.

By: MikeS

MikeS — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:20:00 +0000

“OK, so there was one reflexive snipe at the internet: ‘Their news coverage and hard-digging investigative reporting stand out in an Internet landscape long dominated by partisan commentary, gossip, vitriol and citizen journalism posted by unpaid amateurs.’ Yeah, yeah, yeah.”

Snipe, maybe, but it happens to be so, Or, at least, in my experience.

By: Walter Abbott

Walter Abbott — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:10:54 +0000

Here’s a keeper for you, Jeff.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003892624

Lunch Panel Debates War Coverage, Blogs and Fairness
By Joe Strupp
Published: November 18, 2008 4:50 PM ET

“Finally, when discussion turned to the dangers of growing opinion online and on cable television…”

By: Briantist

Briantist — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:46:06 +0000

Jeff: I was wondering about the “Revenue is also way less than half” part.

If we lost local newspapers and their ability to take adverts and perhaps also local commercial radio (in the UK) and say local (UK regional commercial) TV too, would this not allow the value of those adverts targeted to local markets online to rise to the point where they can sustain a local news operation online?

This must be the assumption, otherwise local news would either have to become an unpaid or casual profession (sic) or “byte the dust”, so to speak.