Comments on: Drivel that is print media http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/04/21/drivel-that-is-print-media A permanent record for what's interesting today - this is my live journal Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:14:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Don McArthur http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/04/21/drivel-that-is-print-media#comment-132949 Don McArthur Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:26:35 +0000 http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/04/21/drivel-that-is-print-media#comment-132949 If you are a heavy Internet media consumer, it eventually dawns on you that newspapers (even here in the US) are essentially poorly done blogs. Most of their content is composed of items selected from a wire service by an editor who pastes it into his final product. Unfortunately, by the time you see it in that format the item is most often late, out of date, incomplete, not updated, and unlinkable. In other words, of little value. This is universally understood. Look at a stock price chart for any newspaper company. If you are a heavy Internet media consumer, it eventually dawns on you that newspapers (even here in the US) are essentially poorly done blogs. Most of their content is composed of items selected from a wire service by an editor who pastes it into his final product. Unfortunately, by the time you see it in that format the item is most often late, out of date, incomplete, not updated, and unlinkable. In other words, of little value.

This is universally understood. Look at a stock price chart for any newspaper company.

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