‘Give me one thing in there that happened today’
Talk about truth in satire.
The Daily Show send one of their comedians to the New York Times to ‘report’ on the health of the newspaper industry. The best bit was when the guy challenged a Timesman to show him one thing, just one, in today’s newspaper that happened today.
Of course Executive Bill Keller got in a dig at online news sources like Huffington Post and The Drudge Report, saying he never sees their correspondents reporting from places like Baghdad because it’s safer and cheaper to stay in the states and riff on the content produced by the news organizations that do the actual reporting. Of course, Keller included Google in his list, seemingly clueless to the fact that Google is a search engine, not a news organization.
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Hat tip: Jeff Jarvis.
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What’s black and white and red all over?
Your balance sheet!
Ha ha ha! It’s funny because other media are so profitable!
I got this idea
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I wonder if any district people bank at bank of america where the chairman could give a shit about the customer, investors, and the government, they got something in common, oh well lets get a fifth musuem
You know the word “news” comes from the word “new”. If it isn’t new then it isn’t news.
It was actually uncomfortable to watch. I don’t morn the loss of newspapers. I look at it as a natural progression. I wonder what will come next?
Excellent segment as usual. Aside from old news, we should consider the effects newspapers have on our environment.
There is the materials and process used for making the paper. The cost and energy used to ship the paper, and the waste involved with discarding the paper.
…I’m just saying
I assume, then, that the radio “news” that you hear in the morning on, say, WMBD is also not “news” because it’s a recap of things that happened the previous day, right? And when the Huffington Post or the Daily Show covers events, they’re not “news” either. Or when WEEK runs a story that was up on the Journal Star’s website two hours earlier, the WEEK story is not longer news, correct? In fact, if it were to be put out on the internet at 5:59, and WEEK ran a story on it at 6:01, it’s not news, right? Because it’s no longer “new”? See, this is why that whole line of argument is ridiculous.
Not to mention the fact that the newspaper does, in fact, publish “new” information — often! They make FOIA requests, conduct interviews, gather background data, research stories, and then provide all that information in the newspaper, and that information is “new(s)” to the reader. (And then it gets linked to by bloggers on the internet who say newspapers don’t publish anything new, ironically.) Just because the nature of print precludes them from breaking news of an event before the internet or TV doesn’t mean that they have NO new content to offer readers.