You gotta admit: newspapers were once a glorious and important part of American culture, from the Hollywood Reporter to the Village Voice. But those days are almost over now, and they're all fast becoming snailpapers, or worse!
By the way, I sent the video link to Carl Bernstein in New York and he wrote back in internet time: "Nice voice, and so very very true..."
You've heard that print newspaper are dying, of course, and being overtaken by this thing called 24-hour cable television news and the online reality of Twitter and Facebook. Now here's ''the world's first musical obituary for newspapers,'' as former Washington Star gossip columnist Diana McClellan calls it
This rather shameless headline from the Springfield Republican in Massachusetts is not a crash blossom, but interesting nonetheless for the way it went viral so quickly last week:"One-armed man arrested for unarmed robbery"
''Even though I am no longer affiliated with a newspaper these days, I
still regularly punish myself by pondering what, if anything, can be
done to save a dying industry I gave my professional life to.......This is depressing work, .....but if newspapers are willing to knock off the panic, and take a
couple of deep breaths, maybe I have finally come up with a way to be
of some help here........Remind your readers, and would-be readers, that you work for them."
Hi Dan:.......OK, that's really, really bad! ....Actually it's great. .....Of course you need an old print guy like me to really appreciate it......I've put it in my files.,,,,,,Thanks for sending, and reaching out..... -- Doug Clawson
A profesor says: "Speaking of snailpapers, Dan, .....someone who had retyped a single print issue of the New York Times on an ordinary, slow date, and discovered it to be a 900-page book of every kind of human drama. The ''snailpaper'' is a hidden literary miracle.
Professor Sree Sreenivasan , Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, watched the video, told me: "i will tweet the video - is there a link to the Projo oped?" Dr Sreenivan told me earilier: "I love the term snailpapers.. i would have mentioned it in my dna essay if i'd heard about it earlier: [titled "lessons from a week without newspapers:"] READ IT!
Friend tells me: "I have had a long-running "argument" about how the value of papers. I have no interest in snailpapers, don't read them and don't want to read them.. The song is cute but who cares? I don't!"
Today, Jim Romenesko's popular news industry website at Poynter site linked to the song and the PROJO oped about the song with the headline [Left Rail]: "Snailpaper song gets mixed reviews." -- which is true, reviews have been mixed.....thanks Jim for the link.
Bob Greene, veteran US newspaper columnist and author , tells me: "Dear Dan -- I'm still traveling with the computer that won't play video; but I look forward to watching it soon.... I was able to read your very good op-ed in the PROJO newspaper, though--.... As you probably can guess, I agree with what you said. And who doesn't hire retired dentists to record their songs-- I mean, everyone does, right?"
I wrote an article for all this also in the Juneau Empire and concluded:
"Let me conclude this love letter to print newspapers everywhere like this: we must do all we can to preserve the daily snailpaper, and if humor can help us get over the hump and through the current malaise, then this newly minted coinage -- snailpapers! - might serve some small purpose, even if as a small historical footnote to the slow death of what we all once loved and cherished - that thing called paper.
Long live snailpapers everywhere, from sea to shining sea. They play an important role in our lives, and if nothing else, yes, we can still use them to line the birdcage or wrap fish during the Juneau Salmon Derby."
Page 243 in ''The Dispossessed'', I dont care what he sees. We dont want him seen. Have you been reading the birdseed papers? Or the broadsheets that were circulating last week in Old Town....."
Olbirch in Rhode Island tells me: "Ursala K LeGuin in her novel _The_Dispossessed_ called print newspapers "birdseed press" because the paper ended up at the bottom of bird cages. "Birdseed" was probably a euphanism."
Eleanor Shevlin, professor at West Chester University in Pennsylvania, writes re recent oped piece in Projo and this song: "Loved it....--....I will be adding it to my links for an undergrad and grad courses on history of manuscript, print, and digital courses that I will be teaching in the fall -- and I will also be referring to this blog and song in a theory course on conventions of reading and writing that I am presently teaching."
1300 hits soon....and then the sky's the limit: major East Coast snailpaper to publish oped on this meme this coming weekend. Stay tuned. Don't turn this page!
Watched All the President's Men on DVD last night, from 1976. Still holds up well as a news industry movie, very well....and the old use of old media in the movie: landline phones, dial phones, Redford/Woodward going over 12 city phone books to find a source. O GOOGLE ME!
We've always joked about these robot writers taking our jobs, but this new one actually has us a little scared. Thankfully, it looks like we have a little time before it perfects its human-voice! [Singularity Hub]
We thought it'd be fun to give our new robot journalist this song on robot journalists for its first song review. Looks like there's still some kinks to work out! In case you're confused, here's the human rundown: Though we've heard about robot writers for a while, they were always just about crunching facts and spitting out write-ups. These newest models take it a step further with actual lyric writing....
A friend and critic of the song said.... "I do think the song is overlong and the chorus-deployment way too repetitive ......but I dig it nevertheless. "
one should also mention the important aspect of dreaming as a way to resolve more general problems and questions rather than immediate ones. Dreaming may be related to the problems of the day, but one should be careful not to reduce it to a puzzle solving session and to understand that it is also a time for a more general reflection on our life, which many times is something we don't want to do during our waking hours.
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Chicago Sun-Times, the citys most-read newspaper, is now available on the Amazon Kindle, the popular portable, e-reader device that easily downloads books, newspapers, magazines and more onto a sharp, high-resolution display. Chicago Sun-Times readers will now be able to get the regions best sports coverage, metro news, features and their favorite columnists including Americas movie critic, Roger Ebert, right at their fingertips for a mere $8.99 a month.
The Chicago Sun-Times is the city of Chicagos best-read newspaper, with nearly 1.2 million readers each weekday. The Kindle edition will offer readers the flexibility of being able to take their favorite city newspaper with them, even if theyre out of town, with no newsprint and no hunting for a recycling container when finished reading. Readers will get their e-version of the Sun-Times at the same time the newspaper is delivered to homes, perfect commuters and other busy people on the go.
Commuters already know that the Chicago Sun-Times is the most comprehensive source of news for readers on the go, and the explosive popularity of the Kindle and e-readers makes Kindle a natural partner for us, said John Barron, Chicago Sun-Times Publisher. The Sun-Times continues to explore new, innovative ways to deliver the news to our readers.
good post. reading it made me think of last night, i watched 1976 video DVD of ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN re Woodward and Bernstein and while the movie still holds up well after all these years, the interesting part for me was watching how the old media was in full play then: old typewriters on the screen, landline phones, dial phones, Woodward, er Redford, trying to find a source by pouring through dozens of city phone book directories...where GOOGLE then?
noting: ''Joe Strupp reports that the Chicago Sun-Times has launched an edition on Amazon's Kindle e-reader for $8.99 per month. According to a statement released by the Sun-Times, more than 100 newspapers now have Kindle editions." GOODBYE SNAILPAPERS?
Palash Dave, British-Indian writer, film-maker, stage/online impresario, writes from India today: "Danny Bloom's wee witty ditty is a gently-satiric tribute to a threatened form. As a snailpaper-junkie from Limeyland (where we used, in less hygienic times, to re-deploy our daily papers as wrapping for our "fish'n'chips") I raised a wry eyebrow at this affectionate, anti-modish celebration of some justly-venerated American institutions. I wish Danny well in pressing for their preservation."
An e-model for journalism in Seattle...... The Seattle PI folded last year after 146 years. It's online only now. .... After the 146-year-old Post-Intelligencer folded last year, 20 of 160 employees were retained to produce an online product. read Jim Rainey's report in the LA Times snailpaper....very good!
National Snailpaper Day coming nationwide on April 7th. Any suggestions on how to celebrate / observe this special day? Humor okay, but serious intent intended, mind you!
The Net didnt kill US newspapers: they committed suicide...and.....
Gannett has fired thousands of people over the last two years and asked others to take weeks without pay. The company has not come up with a single meaningful strategic plan to overcome the slide in its fortunes. Operations like Huffington Post , Politico, flanked Gannett. It never had the intelligence to launch its own internet-only products. Perhaps it feared that would cannibalize its print properties, but they dying
The Net didnt kill US newspapers: they committed suicide...
AND...., Gannett CEO Craig Dubow made $4.7 million last year according to the Gannett proxy. That is up from $3.1 million in 2008. Senior executives at the paper company get the customary access to private cars and the firms jet.
The Net didnt kill US newspapers: they committed suicide. SEE? Gannett is part of the crumbling newspaper industry. It has not gotten its online properties to nearly match the revenue of its traditional print operations, so the firm is still shrinking and has no real answer to it troubles. Gannetts stock is off 80% over the last five years, which is much greater that the shares of either The New York Times Company or The Washington Post ,Gannetts revenue is likely to drop again in 2010.
Newspapers will be like film - they won't go away completely, but will shift to specialty markets to be enjoyed once a month, on "retro days" or on vacations. Businesses will thrive, it's just that they will be $1M businesses not $100B businesses. Newsoaoers will survive as free giveaways in tourist toens, etc.
JAPAN continued: "As there will be no nightshifts, we won't be able to put the latest news in, leaving the door wide open for competition to race farther ahead that it is now. I have a feeling that if our circulation doesn't pick itself up in the very near future, we will join other ex-papers here as on online paper only."
Even Walter Issacson of TIME magazine says: "According to a Pew Research Center study, a tipping point occurred last year: more people in the U.S. got their news online for free than paid for it by buying newspapers and magazines. Who can blame them? Even an old print junkie like me has quit subscribing to the New York Times, because if it doesn't see fit to charge for its content, I'd feel like a fool paying for it. " WTF?
"The papers with the big problems are the metropolitan dailies," says Dan Robrish, who worked for the AP for nearly a dozen years before launching the Elizabethtown Advocate. "Here, if you want to read a professionally written news story about what the Board of Township Supervisors did on Thursday, you really don't have much choice but to pick up the Elizabethtown Advocate, because I was the only journalist at that meeting. I am the only game in town."
FRANK RICH ADDS: "The problem print SNAILMAGS are having, and as a reader Im a symptom of it, is that its not clear to me what their role is. For entertainment news I read Variety, and I also look The Atlantic, Harpers, and the Paris Review (and not just because my son works there). Its a media deluge. My biggest problem is trying to cut it down and digest it. "
FRANK RICH NOTES: "I read a lot of PRINT SNAILMAGS, ER, magazines, too. .....Besides the New York Times Magazine [note: Rich's wife, Alex Witchel, is a staff writer], I regularly read the New Yorker, New York Magazine, the New York Review of Books, The Nation, and Vanity Fair. I absolutely read the Economist, and fairly thoroughly. I used to work for Time, early in my career, so Im curious about whats going on with them.
FRANK RICH ADDS: "When Im travelling my KINDLE is great, but even then Ill take a book or two. As I discovered on a recent trip, a Kindle can inexplicably CRASH, and I never want to be on an airplane without a BOOK. I dont use the Kindle for reading magazines and SNAILPAPERS but its great for reading manuscripts and scripts."
FRANK RICH SAYS: "I get five print SNAILPAPERS each morning: the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York Post, and the New York Daily News. I do understand the inefficiency of print, but its a habit—when I grew up in Washington I was a newspaper delivery boy. "
Rick MacArthur, 53, talks about the problems facing Harpers: readership is down 35,000, newsstand sales are plummeting, the only direct-mail piece that seemed to work was 20 years old...... Worse, Harpers snailmag seemed irrelevant — the mainstream media is ignoring it to death, he said —
HOW MANY DOTCOM BUBBLES MUST THERE BE BEFORE EVERYONE REALIZES THE INTERNET IS POWERED ON SNAKEOIL? (Mitigating: Anil Dash seems (from here, far away from the tech-media bubble) like a really righteous person, so maybe not.)
Paul Ford says: "I was at Harper's print mag, snailmag, for five years. It's very weird to be outside. Everyone has MacBooks. People use nouns as verbs. Someone wrote that they were going to f/u with me the other day, which concerned me, and someone else said that they looked forward to calendaring a meeting. Can I learn this strange new bird-language? I don't know. I want to start my blog up again. The most important thing any person can do in this world is get back to their blog. "
NYT's Frank Rich loves this song -- "I get five print snailpapers a day. I do understand the inefficiency of print, but it's a habit. I go through the snailpapers very fast or more luxuriantly, depending on my day, whether I'm on deadline, etc. I read them away from my desk, drinking a cup of coffee...
Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia says Snailpapers Should Ditch Columnists, and that Google Is Naive....but We are Not sure on what basis the Wikipedia founder pontificates about the news biz...
A big sigh of relief for the Chicago Sun-Times where Neil Steinberg, in this song, works. Tribune's media columnist, Phil Rosenthal, dishes the dirt....
Is news over? Well, the UK's George Brock tackles journalism's biggest question as Head of journalism at City University talks to students and media professionals about the future of news media. Google the speech.
Ted Rall, cartoonist and animation artist extraordinaire has a great video cartoon here about "How to Save Newspapers" too. Go to his YouTube link, type in his name and the title of the video, and see it. It's very very good and makes a nice companion piece to this novelty song.
Ted Rall - "How to Save Newspapers" video at his YouTube link. "This was a silent movie parody by somebody who actually watched silent movies. Loved the long periods of speaking before the tilte card appears. Very accurate. Cute but if this is supposed to convince me to subscribe to a newspaper, it made them look even more obsolete. Let's save the Canadian forests and find a way to support reporters and cartoonists online."
Bob Garfield, the author of The Chaos Scenario on the changes being brought about by the collapse of the mass advertising model, and with it the mass media. While Garfield is fundamentally optimistic about the future, he compares the pain being experienced by media professionals and their organizations today to the dislocation that occurred when the craft/artisan economy gave way to the Industrial Revolution.
NYT's Frank Rich loves this song -- "I get five print snailpapers a day. I do understand the inefficiency of print, but it's a habit. I go through the snailpapers very fast or more luxuriantly, depending on my day, whether I'm on deadline, etc. I read them away from my desk, drinking a cup -- no, several cups -- of coffee."
Marie Benilde. MARCH 16 , 2010, NYTimes oped on The End of Newspapers — "Journalists are now in the same situation as steel workers in the1970s: they are destined to disappear..."
Ask Marie Benilde in Paris, author of "On Achete bien les cervaux: La publicite et les medias" and her very good oped in the Times last week.,...for Le Monde Diplomatique...
"..I wouldn't like to see the end of printed news. I like the tactile feel of a newspaper and the crossword (its the basis of a little community of breakfast eaters here). As an academic, the fact that the Times is archived online is a great resource but I wouldn't want them to stop with the print version. Same goes for the Guardian. So .. I'm on the side of lets keep print media and aim to realise the high standards of professional journalism ." -- Ben Goren, Taiwan.
If Im right, it will be a different universe. Us old fogeys will feel sad and nostalgic. But our grandchildren wont know what theyre missing and wont care.
Bookstores as we know them are finished. Those that survive will morph into coffeehouses and community centers. Possibly they might become highly decentralized warehouses for books ordered over the internet, as used bookstores already have. (Interestingly, used bookstores have survived because of the internet, not despite it.)
For what its worth, here are my predictions of the future:
Im not sure about paper newspapers and magazines. The functions will survive, but the form is very up for grabs. I love my paper newspaper, but its getting very expensive, and I notice that none of my kids feels any attachment to it. I suspect it wont be much longer before we have to pay for news on the internet. Some kind of subscription system will develop. Somebody has to pay those reporters.
''What's your platform?'' everyone asks...If you don't have a large audience on yr website, their interest in your work diminishes considerably.... Tim Stafford said that in "My Predictions for the Future of Publishing" -- blog post, google it
Q. While I used to enjoy reading the comments section of Post articles, they now are dominated by racist, conspiracy theory rants. The opposite approach is used by the Times which monitors the posts and deletes the nuts while still allowing healthy debate. ...........Marcus Brauchli: We do police them but rely in part on readers to alert us to offensive posts. In addition, we're evaluating other ways to regulate the quality of comments.
You are here because you understand. The yin and yang of snailpapers and mass media and mass marketing -- so marvelously, mutually sustaining for many years -- have decoupled. The digital universe that pried them apart is itself a marvel, shifting power from the few to the many and altering human behavior, not to mention economies, on a grand scale. The question is what to do now.
Bob Garfield, author of ''The Chaos Scenario'' is worried about the changes being brought about by the collapse of the mass advertising model, and with it the mass media. While he is 'optimistic about the future, he compares the pain being experienced by media professionals and snailpapers today to the dislocation that occurred when the craft/artisan economy gave way to the Industrial Revolution. ...therell be a decade or two of chaos that precedes new models, he says...
''High quality, ethically sound journalism will be alive and well after our grandchildren are dead'.....That's what Lee Rainie tells Leonard Witt. "News organizations are trying to adapt to the new realities that will allow them to provide [high quality journalism], and there will always be a portion of the population who deeply cares about public life and civic life and the way that public institutions perform."
The Providence Journal in Rhode Island is poised to run an oped commentary about snailpapers and the future of print journalism, with a link to this song.
Sol Gittelman of Tufts University who taught me everything I know about the old Forward in NYC, told me in a recent email re this song: ''I still read three a day, in my hand!''
Daisy Whitney of Beet TV watched the video and said: "It was cute! I watched it, but I don't think it's right for Beet. Thanks for thinking of us though."
I hope some sort of concord can be reached between the two camps as a divide like this can only be bad for journalism as a whole.
I'd be interested to see in the future if and how these two poles of journalism find a way to work together which is best for the industry as a whole. Ultimately, I'd like to see the best of both worlds combine to produce faster and more interesting copy in the future.
Weve entered The Last Days of Media. Traditional publishers economics cant stand up against the overwhelming volume of new content and ad inventory being manufactured by the likes of blogs, Facebook, Myspace, Craigslist et al. What will New York City and the nation look like without the New York Times?
Diana McClellan asked me a good question today, she said: "Danny, what's your goal with this video and song?"......I said "Just to give people in the news business a chuckle and a smile and maybe a guffaw and a memory trip down memory lane, that's all. The handwriting's already on the wall....."
I was reading Alan Mutter's spot-on Andreessens not-so-hot idea for publishers and once again ran across some comments of the "newspapers need to set up separate online operations and give them freedom" variety.
Here's the problem: It's been done, over and over. It's being done right now. It's happening in ways you don't see, and I promise you won't like the outcome. -- Yelvington blogs this.
This video now has 1073 hits, and a new way to write "hits" is like this. This video now has 1073#, and a new way to write hits is with a pound sign after the number of hits a site gets....
Roy MacGregor notes: ...''() It is a terrible vision of what journalism could evolve into as it enters a world it so desperately wishes to own, but has little idea of what the available measures in this digital world actually mean.''
Roy MacGregor at the Globe and Mail on the damage that chasing hits-- aka # in new parlance, -- online can do to journalism and why circulation and web traffic should not be confused with circulation:.....''Why be a storyteller when a ranter will have far more traffic? Why be investigative when instigative is a far quicker route to success on the web?...
Traffic at the top three newspaper Web sites - The New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today - amounted to half that of the top three cable channels. Cable sites also enjoy more loyalty among readers who spend more time on site per month at 23 minutes and 36 seconds versus newspaper Web sites time spent of 10 minutes and 18 seconds.
Despite the flourishing of new media organizations the report gets to the heart of the problem: cost effective technology has yet to translate into dollars. "Unless some system of financing the production of content is developed, it is difficult to see how reportorial journalism will not continue to shrink, regardless of the potential tools offered by technology," said the report.
"For newspapers, which still provide the largest share of reportorial journalism in the United Sates, the metaphor that comes to mind is sand in an hourglass," stated the report.
NEW YORK Newspaper advertising revenue plunged an astounding 45% over the last three years forcing publishers to make drastic reductions to the actual size of the print edition, to the space devoted to news to the ranks of employees.
Those findings are the latest from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism State of the News Media 2010 report that starkly quantifies the affects of a nasty recession and the sweeping structural changes faced by media organizations.
Newspapers will benefit from the end of the recession, said the report, however it also noted that newspapers are their own worse enemies: "Far too many papers are at risk of becoming insubstantial," warned the report. "They lack the heft to be thrown up on the front porch or to satisfy those readers still willing to pay for a good print newspaper."
What about Jeff Jarvis view that news, instead will be made up of the topic, meaning a blog or site that treats a topic as an ongoing and cumulative process of learning, digging, correcting, asking, answering.?
Howard Weaver sums up one of the big shifts in journalism pretty damn well:
In my salad days journalists relied on one tool to handle it all the constantly changing river of news as well as the intricate web of process and relationships. Our tool was the story, a finite prose narrative anchored to one spot in time all the news we could gather and report by midnight, more or less. Compared to the alternatives of the day, it was a rich and powerful source of information.
Theres a very smart new blog on the scene, called The Future of Context. Its run by Matt Thompson of Newsless, with input from Jay Rosen, Tristan Harris and Staci Kramer. The aim of the blog is a noble one: we wanted to bring some context to the question of context.
Matt Thompson says:......I think were on the verge of an epochal advancement in journalism. Weve spoken for years about the radical evolution that must take place, but I think our ideas are only now matching our ambitions. In recent years, our craft has gotten quicker and glitzier and slightly more in touch, but all our progress has been incremental. Now, the paradigm shift is finally at hand
Want to know Steve Ballmer's outlook for the future of media ?....: In the next 10 years, the whole world of media, communications and advertising are going to be turned upside down .....Number one, there will be no media consumption left in 10 years that is not delivered over an IP network. There will be no newspapers, no magazines that are delivered in paper form. Everything gets delivered in an electronic form.
Warren Buffet quote: If Mr. Gutenberg had come up with the Internet instead of movable type back in the late 15th century, and for 400 years we had used the Internet for news and all types of entertainment and all kinds of everything else, and I came along one day and said ...... SEE BELOW
Warren Buffet : ....''I have got this idea: we are going to chop down some trees up in Canada and ship them to a paper mill which will cost us a fortune to run through and deliver newsprint and then well ship that down to some newspaper and well have a whole bunch of people staying up all night writing up things and then well send a bunch of kids out the next day all over town delivering this thing and we are going to really wipe out the Internet with this It aint going to happen.
see my ''Graduation Speech to the Class of 2099'' A.D., meant for grads this year, at my YouTube site here, click on my userid above. It says we must tighten the noose around coal, words from Dr Ausubel at Rockefeller University....
Robert Feder, keeping tabs on the media in Chicago for 30 years and now on the vocalo blogsite, says to me, after I sent him the song: at 11:31 AM (7 minutes ago) -- "Thanks, Danny."
AP bureau chief in Taiwan, who has covered wars in Israel and cross-strait contretemps and brouhahas in a teapot between Beijing and Taipei, says to this song: ''I'm glad that Carl Bernstein likes your song. However, that development is not worthy of AP coverage.'' Another good story AP refuses to dish the dirt on....SIGH.
For his ninth birthday last year our eldest son Bradley received a mobile phone from his grandparents.......Within a few days he was gunning me down with it (the phone has a machine gun sound setting), playing football games on it, and listening to his favourite tunes through it.
........
He seemed genuinely surprised some time later to find it could be used to communicate with other phone users.
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MrBikolang 1 month ago
2239 after CSm Rueters hits....
MrDanbloom 7 months ago
2219 hits as of July 15
MrDanbloom 7 months ago
You gotta admit: newspapers were once a glorious and important part of American culture, from the Hollywood Reporter to the Village Voice. But those days are almost over now, and they're all fast becoming snailpapers, or worse!
By the way, I sent the video link to Carl Bernstein in New York and he wrote back in internet time: "Nice voice, and so very very true..."
Enjoy the song! It's a trip down Memory Lane...
MrDanbloom 7 months ago
You've heard that print newspaper are dying, of course, and being overtaken by this thing called 24-hour cable television news and the online reality of Twitter and Facebook. Now here's ''the world's first musical obituary for newspapers,'' as former Washington Star gossip columnist Diana McClellan calls it
MrDanbloom 7 months ago
The Wrap in Hollywood posts a brief post about this song today titled: ''A Musical Obituary to My Daily Snailpaper''................
Published: July 13, 2011 @ 3:07 pm
MrDanbloom 7 months ago
This rather shameless headline from the Springfield Republican in Massachusetts is not a crash blossom, but interesting nonetheless for the way it went viral so quickly last week:"One-armed man arrested for unarmed robbery"
David Moye at AOL news dishes the dirt.
MrDanbloom 1 year ago
''Video would be stronger with better visuals than the lyrics (some newspaper headlines, front pages, personalities, etc.). ''' -- SB says
MrDanbloom 1 year ago
''Video would be stronger with better visuals than the lyrics (some newspaper headlines, front pages, personalities, etc.). ''' -- SB says
MrDanbloom 1 year ago
cute
MrDanbloom 1 year ago
cute!@
MrDanbloom 1 year ago
''Even though I am no longer affiliated with a newspaper these days, I
still regularly punish myself by pondering what, if anything, can be
done to save a dying industry I gave my professional life to.......This is depressing work, .....but if newspapers are willing to knock off the panic, and take a
couple of deep breaths, maybe I have finally come up with a way to be
of some help here........Remind your readers, and would-be readers, that you work for them."
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
''The real value is if that
newspaper delivered to their doorstep is relevant to that reader's
life.''
Doug Clawson writes: ".....Therefore, the local newspaper needs to be stuffed with local news and happenings. And
I mean real local. It needs to be about the reader, for the reader.
Make advocacy journalism your bailiwick."...and.....from :Read All About It! How Newspapers Can Survive!" google the headline
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Hi Dan:.......OK, that's really, really bad! ....Actually it's great. .....Of course you need an old print guy like me to really appreciate it......I've put it in my files.,,,,,,Thanks for sending, and reaching out..... -- Doug Clawson
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Edward H Tenner on snailpapers: "The ''snailpaper'' is a hidden literary miracle. "
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
A profesor says: "Speaking of snailpapers, Dan, .....someone who had retyped a single print issue of the New York Times on an ordinary, slow date, and discovered it to be a 900-page book of every kind of human drama. The ''snailpaper'' is a hidden literary miracle.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Every Monday, DNAinfo contributing editor Sree Sreenivasan shares his
observations about the changing media landscape.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
sree:.....''When Joe Ricketts envisioned the creation of a daily, digital news
operation that became DNAinfo, he saw the transition away from print
as an opportunity to build new, trusted brands of news and
information. I believe that there will be many more such projects that
have the DNA, if you will, of a newspaper, but use the latest
technology to find, report, aggregate stories for specific audiences.''
In the meantime, I'll be a subscriber to the Times as long as
there is
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
sree:.....There's Twitter itself, of course, and this December tweet by a
journalist I know and respect, New York University professor Adam
Penenberg, author of "Viral Loop" and a former Forbes reporter,
highlights one of the useful parts of Twitter: "I read newspapers far
less than I used to yet am far better informed, bounding from link to
link via my Twitter feed, etc." It all depends on who you are
listening to (be sure to read my column about Twiangulate).
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
sree: My most productive mornings are when I get up early enough to hear the
thud of the papers landing outside our Manhattan apartment door. I
read the A section of the Wall Street Journal first, because that's
what my wife likes to take on her commute. I then have all day to read
the New York Times and the rest of the Journal sections.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
By Sree Sreenivasan
DNAinfo Contributing Editor
For all the time I spend talking about Twitter, Facebook and other
digital journalism tools, I am a newspaper and magazine guy at heart.
I believe there's still something magical about print.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Professor Sree Sreenivasan , Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, watched the video, told me: "i will tweet the video - is there a link to the Projo oped?" Dr Sreenivan told me earilier: "I love the term snailpapers.. i would have mentioned it in my dna essay if i'd heard about it earlier: [titled "lessons from a week without newspapers:"] READ IT!
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Its become fashionable to proclaim that print is dying, as if a
medium that has been around for more than five centuries might, like a
guest who has overstayed his welcome, suddenly glance about the room,
see his hostess nodding off in her chair, and realize its time to
call it a night. I have my doubts about the all-encompassing scope of
the so-called digital revolution, but as the father of five children,
I can certainly see what all the fuss is about.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Opinion: Print Is Dying ... Really?
At a time when magazines are everyone's whipping boy, Graydon Carter
offers evidence to the contrary.
March 28, 2010
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Friend tells me: "I have had a long-running "argument" about how the value of papers. I have no interest in snailpapers, don't read them and don't want to read them.. The song is cute but who cares? I don't!"
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Updated at
12:04 p.m.
"Snailpapers" song
Gets mixed reviews.
see Projo
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Today, Jim Romenesko's popular news industry website at Poynter site linked to the song and the PROJO oped about the song with the headline [Left Rail]: "Snailpaper song gets mixed reviews." -- which is true, reviews have been mixed.....thanks Jim for the link.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Bob Greene, veteran US newspaper columnist and author , tells me: "Dear Dan -- I'm still traveling with the computer that won't play video; but I look forward to watching it soon.... I was able to read your very good op-ed in the PROJO newspaper, though--.... As you probably can guess, I agree with what you said. And who doesn't hire retired dentists to record their songs-- I mean, everyone does, right?"
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
I wrote an article for all this also in the Juneau Empire and concluded:
"Let me conclude this love letter to print newspapers everywhere like this: we must do all we can to preserve the daily snailpaper, and if humor can help us get over the hump and through the current malaise, then this newly minted coinage -- snailpapers! - might serve some small purpose, even if as a small historical footnote to the slow death of what we all once loved and cherished - that thing called paper.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Long live snailpapers everywhere, from sea to shining sea. They play an important role in our lives, and if nothing else, yes, we can still use them to line the birdcage or wrap fish during the Juneau Salmon Derby."
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Grant Barrett, the radio word guy, told me: "I have heard of print newspapers called "steampapers," in reference to steam
engines and other outmoded technologies."
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Page 243 in ''The Dispossessed'', I dont care what he sees. We dont want him seen. Have you been reading the birdseed papers? Or the broadsheets that were circulating last week in Old Town....."
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Olbirch in Rhode Island tells me: "Ursala K LeGuin in her novel _The_Dispossessed_ called print newspapers "birdseed press" because the paper ended up at the bottom of bird cages. "Birdseed" was probably a euphanism."
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Eleanor Shevlin, professor at West Chester University in Pennsylvania, writes re recent oped piece in Projo and this song: "Loved it....--....I will be adding it to my links for an undergrad and grad courses on history of manuscript, print, and digital courses that I will be teaching in the fall -- and I will also be referring to this blog and song in a theory course on conventions of reading and writing that I am presently teaching."
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
1.344 hits and climbing....should reach 10,000 hits by 2025 AD
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
The Providence Journal in Rhode Island runs an oped on this song today. Nice.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
1300 hits soon....and then the sky's the limit: major East Coast snailpaper to publish oped on this meme this coming weekend. Stay tuned. Don't turn this page!
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Watched All the President's Men on DVD last night, from 1976. Still holds up well as a news industry movie, very well....and the old use of old media in the movie: landline phones, dial phones, Redford/Woodward going over 12 city phone books to find a source. O GOOGLE ME!
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
We've always joked about these robot writers taking our jobs, but this new one actually has us a little scared. Thankfully, it looks like we have a little time before it perfects its human-voice! [Singularity Hub]
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
We thought it'd be fun to give our new robot journalist this song on robot journalists for its first song review. Looks like there's still some kinks to work out! In case you're confused, here's the human rundown: Though we've heard about robot writers for a while, they were always just about crunching facts and spitting out write-ups. These newest models take it a step further with actual lyric writing....
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
A friend and critic of the song said.... "I do think the song is overlong and the chorus-deployment way too repetitive ......but I dig it nevertheless. "
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
one should also mention the important aspect of dreaming as a way to resolve more general problems and questions rather than immediate ones. Dreaming may be related to the problems of the day, but one should be careful not to reduce it to a puzzle solving session and to understand that it is also a time for a more general reflection on our life, which many times is something we don't want to do during our waking hours.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Chicago Sun-Times, the citys most-read newspaper, is now available on the Amazon Kindle, the popular portable, e-reader device that easily downloads books, newspapers, magazines and more onto a sharp, high-resolution display. Chicago Sun-Times readers will now be able to get the regions best sports coverage, metro news, features and their favorite columnists including Americas movie critic, Roger Ebert, right at their fingertips for a mere $8.99 a month.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
The Chicago Sun-Times is the city of Chicagos best-read newspaper, with nearly 1.2 million readers each weekday. The Kindle edition will offer readers the flexibility of being able to take their favorite city newspaper with them, even if theyre out of town, with no newsprint and no hunting for a recycling container when finished reading. Readers will get their e-version of the Sun-Times at the same time the newspaper is delivered to homes, perfect commuters and other busy people on the go.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Commuters already know that the Chicago Sun-Times is the most comprehensive source of news for readers on the go, and the explosive popularity of the Kindle and e-readers makes Kindle a natural partner for us, said John Barron, Chicago Sun-Times Publisher. The Sun-Times continues to explore new, innovative ways to deliver the news to our readers.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Jeff Israely in Italy, TIME mag there:
good post. reading it made me think of last night, i watched 1976 video DVD of ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN re Woodward and Bernstein and while the movie still holds up well after all these years, the interesting part for me was watching how the old media was in full play then: old typewriters on the screen, landline phones, dial phones, Woodward, er Redford, trying to find a source by pouring through dozens of city phone book directories...where GOOGLE then?
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Chicago Sun-Times launches on Kindle,
reports Damon Kiesow on Mar. 22, 2010
noting: ''Joe Strupp reports that the Chicago Sun-Times has launched an edition on Amazon's Kindle e-reader for $8.99 per month. According to a statement released by the Sun-Times, more than 100 newspapers now have Kindle editions." GOODBYE SNAILPAPERS?
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Peter Kafka of AllThingsD apparently loves this song, too, and allowed comment on his blog there. Thanks, Peter.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Palash Dave, British-Indian writer, film-maker, stage/online impresario, writes from India today: "Danny Bloom's wee witty ditty is a gently-satiric tribute to a threatened form. As a snailpaper-junkie from Limeyland (where we used, in less hygienic times, to re-deploy our daily papers as wrapping for our "fish'n'chips") I raised a wry eyebrow at this affectionate, anti-modish celebration of some justly-venerated American institutions. I wish Danny well in pressing for their preservation."
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Introducing the Hot New Social Network, PhoneBook
Allows User to Call Friends, Speak to Them
SILICON VALLEY (The Borowitz Report) A new social network is about to alter the playing field of the social media world, and its called PhoneBook.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
An e-model for journalism in Seattle...... The Seattle PI folded last year after 146 years. It's online only now. .... After the 146-year-old Post-Intelligencer folded last year, 20 of 160 employees were retained to produce an online product. read Jim Rainey's report in the LA Times snailpaper....very good!
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Peter Kafka at AllthingsD just doesn't get it. Who knew?
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
National Snailpaper Day coming nationwide on April 7th. Any suggestions on how to celebrate / observe this special day? Humor okay, but serious intent intended, mind you!
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
The Net didnt kill US newspapers: they committed suicide
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
The Net didnt kill US newspapers: they committed suicide...and.....
Gannett has fired thousands of people over the last two years and asked others to take weeks without pay. The company has not come up with a single meaningful strategic plan to overcome the slide in its fortunes. Operations like Huffington Post , Politico, flanked Gannett. It never had the intelligence to launch its own internet-only products. Perhaps it feared that would cannibalize its print properties, but they dying
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
The Net didnt kill US newspapers: they committed suicide...
AND...., Gannett CEO Craig Dubow made $4.7 million last year according to the Gannett proxy. That is up from $3.1 million in 2008. Senior executives at the paper company get the customary access to private cars and the firms jet.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
The Net didnt kill US newspapers: they committed suicide. SEE? Gannett is part of the crumbling newspaper industry. It has not gotten its online properties to nearly match the revenue of its traditional print operations, so the firm is still shrinking and has no real answer to it troubles. Gannetts stock is off 80% over the last five years, which is much greater that the shares of either The New York Times Company or The Washington Post ,Gannetts revenue is likely to drop again in 2010.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
The Net didnt kill US newspapers: they committed suicide
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
National Snailpapers Day - April 7, 2010 - do it! Pick up a paper on that day and read it.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
In an effort to cater to their sole remaining customer base, many
newspapers have started to run features and advertising targeted at
the ruthless abductors. The Washington Post recently sold a two-page
advertorial to a popular ski-mask manufacturer, while The New York
Times now offers a real estate section dedicated primarily to
abandoned warehouses, remote wooden sheds, and converted industrial
meat freezers hidden from prying eyes.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
According to a source who wished to remain anonymous,
there is an ineffable quality to the printed page that kidnappers
cannot get from its digital counterpart. Though there are other
methods for proving the date of grainy, home-made videos, the source
said that newspapers add a certain gravitas to abductions that news
websites do not.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
NEW YORK—According to a report published this week in American
Journalism Review, 93 percent of all newspaper sales can now be
attributed to kidnappers seeking to prove the day's date in filmed
ransom demands.
"Although the vast majority of Americans now get their news from the
Internet or television, a small but loyal criminal element still
purchases newspapers at a steady rate,"
professor Linus Ridell said. "The sober authority of the
printed word continues to hold value
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Newspapers will be like film - they won't go away completely, but will shift to specialty markets to be enjoyed once a month, on "retro days" or on vacations. Businesses will thrive, it's just that they will be $1M businesses not $100B businesses. Newsoaoers will survive as free giveaways in tourist toens, etc.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
National Snailpapers Day - April 7, 2010 - do it! WHAT TO DO ON THAT DAY? Go out and buy a print newspaper. And read it. Repeat again next year!
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
JAPAN continued: "As there will be no nightshifts, we won't be able to put the latest news in, leaving the door wide open for competition to race farther ahead that it is now. I have a feeling that if our circulation doesn't pick itself up in the very near future, we will join other ex-papers here as on online paper only."
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
National Snailpapers Day - April 7, 2010 - do it!
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Even Walter Issacson of TIME magazine says: "According to a Pew Research Center study, a tipping point occurred last year: more people in the U.S. got their news online for free than paid for it by buying newspapers and magazines. Who can blame them? Even an old print junkie like me has quit subscribing to the New York Times, because if it doesn't see fit to charge for its content, I'd feel like a fool paying for it. " WTF?
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
"The papers with the big problems are the metropolitan dailies," says Dan Robrish, who worked for the AP for nearly a dozen years before launching the Elizabethtown Advocate. "Here, if you want to read a professionally written news story about what the Board of Township Supervisors did on Thursday, you really don't have much choice but to pick up the Elizabethtown Advocate, because I was the only journalist at that meeting. I am the only game in town."
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Хорошая статья. Действительно было интересно почитать. Не часто такое и встречается та.Наверное стоит подписаться на ваше
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Brian Anderson, longtime editor of Mpls. St. Paul magazine, died today.
Anderson was 65. His 33 years at the helm made him one of the
longest-serving city magazine editors in the country and a dean
locally.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
FRANK RICH ADDS: "The problem print SNAILMAGS are having, and as a reader Im a symptom of it, is that its not clear to me what their role is. For entertainment news I read Variety, and I also look The Atlantic, Harpers, and the Paris Review (and not just because my son works there). Its a media deluge. My biggest problem is trying to cut it down and digest it. "
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
FRANK RICH NOTES: "I read a lot of PRINT SNAILMAGS, ER, magazines, too. .....Besides the New York Times Magazine [note: Rich's wife, Alex Witchel, is a staff writer], I regularly read the New Yorker, New York Magazine, the New York Review of Books, The Nation, and Vanity Fair. I absolutely read the Economist, and fairly thoroughly. I used to work for Time, early in my career, so Im curious about whats going on with them.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
FRANK RICH ADDS: "When Im travelling my KINDLE is great, but even then Ill take a book or two. As I discovered on a recent trip, a Kindle can inexplicably CRASH, and I never want to be on an airplane without a BOOK. I dont use the Kindle for reading magazines and SNAILPAPERS but its great for reading manuscripts and scripts."
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
FRANK RICH SAYS: "I get five print SNAILPAPERS each morning: the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York Post, and the New York Daily News. I do understand the inefficiency of print, but its a habit—when I grew up in Washington I was a newspaper delivery boy. "
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Rick MacArthur, 53, talks about the problems facing Harpers: readership is down 35,000, newsstand sales are plummeting, the only direct-mail piece that seemed to work was 20 years old...... Worse, Harpers snailmag seemed irrelevant — the mainstream media is ignoring it to death, he said —
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
HOW MANY DOTCOM BUBBLES MUST THERE BE BEFORE EVERYONE REALIZES THE INTERNET IS POWERED ON SNAKEOIL? (Mitigating: Anil Dash seems (from here, far away from the tech-media bubble) like a really righteous person, so maybe not.)
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Are rats sinking a deserted ship?
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Paul Ford says: "I was at Harper's print mag, snailmag, for five years. It's very weird to be outside. Everyone has MacBooks. People use nouns as verbs. Someone wrote that they were going to f/u with me the other day, which concerned me, and someone else said that they looked forward to calendaring a meeting. Can I learn this strange new bird-language? I don't know. I want to start my blog up again. The most important thing any person can do in this world is get back to their blog. "
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
NYT's Frank Rich loves this song -- "I get five print snailpapers a day. I do understand the inefficiency of print, but it's a habit. I go through the snailpapers very fast or more luxuriantly, depending on my day, whether I'm on deadline, etc. I read them away from my desk, drinking a cup of coffee...
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
NYT national desk upheaval called "head-snapping"
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Never mind journalism, will the iPad save advertising?
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
How is Seattle P-I Web site doing, one year later?
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia says Snailpapers Should Ditch Columnists, and that Google Is Naive....but We are Not sure on what basis the Wikipedia founder pontificates about the news biz...
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
A big sigh of relief for the Chicago Sun-Times where Neil Steinberg, in this song, works. Tribune's media columnist, Phil Rosenthal, dishes the dirt....
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Remaking of the U.S. News Landscape: New York Times Local Experiments Grow
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Jack Schaefer says: Washington Post should undiscover a few of its current chin strokers
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Is news over? Well, the UK's George Brock tackles journalism's biggest question as Head of journalism at City University talks to students and media professionals about the future of news media. Google the speech.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Ted Rall, cartoonist and animation artist extraordinaire has a great video cartoon here about "How to Save Newspapers" too. Go to his YouTube link, type in his name and the title of the video, and see it. It's very very good and makes a nice companion piece to this novelty song.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Ted Rall - "How to Save Newspapers" video at his YouTube link. "This was a silent movie parody by somebody who actually watched silent movies. Loved the long periods of speaking before the tilte card appears. Very accurate. Cute but if this is supposed to convince me to subscribe to a newspaper, it made them look even more obsolete. Let's save the Canadian forests and find a way to support reporters and cartoonists online."
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Bob Garfield, the author of The Chaos Scenario on the changes being brought about by the collapse of the mass advertising model, and with it the mass media. While Garfield is fundamentally optimistic about the future, he compares the pain being experienced by media professionals and their organizations today to the dislocation that occurred when the craft/artisan economy gave way to the Industrial Revolution.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
NYT's Frank Rich loves this song -- "I get five print snailpapers a day. I do understand the inefficiency of print, but it's a habit. I go through the snailpapers very fast or more luxuriantly, depending on my day, whether I'm on deadline, etc. I read them away from my desk, drinking a cup -- no, several cups -- of coffee."
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
"Enough blue sky to make a sailor a new pair of trousers."
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Journalists are now in the same situation as steel workers in the 1970s: They are destined to disappear, but they don't know it. ...
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
ディプロ2008-8 - Journaliste, ou copiste multimedia ? - [ Translate this page ]ニュースサイトとジャーナリスト. マリ・ベニルド（Marie Benilde）. ジャーナリスト. 訳：土田修. 活字メディアで首切りが進むなか、インターネットのニュースサイト ...
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
The End of Newspapers By Marie Benilde. "The transfer of advertising from newspapers to the net is often blamed, but the public has also become ...
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Marie Benilde. MARCH 16 , 2010, NYTimes oped on The End of Newspapers — "Journalists are now in the same situation as steel workers in the1970s: they are destined to disappear..."
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Ralph Whitehead at UMASS, your POV, sir?
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Tom Stites at the Banyan Project, what does he think of the song and its meaning?
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Ask Marie Benilde in Paris, author of "On Achete bien les cervaux: La publicite et les medias" and her very good oped in the Times last week.,...for Le Monde Diplomatique...
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Is this a blue sky song or what?
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
"..I wouldn't like to see the end of printed news. I like the tactile feel of a newspaper and the crossword (its the basis of a little community of breakfast eaters here). As an academic, the fact that the Times is archived online is a great resource but I wouldn't want them to stop with the print version. Same goes for the Guardian. So .. I'm on the side of lets keep print media and aim to realise the high standards of professional journalism ." -- Ben Goren, Taiwan.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
If Im right, it will be a different universe. Us old fogeys will feel sad and nostalgic. But our grandchildren wont know what theyre missing and wont care.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Bookstores as we know them are finished. Those that survive will morph into coffeehouses and community centers. Possibly they might become highly decentralized warehouses for books ordered over the internet, as used bookstores already have. (Interestingly, used bookstores have survived because of the internet, not despite it.)
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
For what its worth, here are my predictions of the future:
Im not sure about paper newspapers and magazines. The functions will survive, but the form is very up for grabs. I love my paper newspaper, but its getting very expensive, and I notice that none of my kids feels any attachment to it. I suspect it wont be much longer before we have to pay for news on the internet. Some kind of subscription system will develop. Somebody has to pay those reporters.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
''What's your platform?'' everyone asks...If you don't have a large audience on yr website, their interest in your work diminishes considerably.... Tim Stafford said that in "My Predictions for the Future of Publishing" -- blog post, google it
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
"I think that in some ways we are kind of entering a Golden Age of
journalism," Weber said, "because the barriers to entry have been
largely removed."
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
"It's a whole new landscape out there, and yet many of us are still functioning as if it's 1999....." Who said that and when?
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
DESIGN? WHO KNEW? USA Today designer Rose named staffer of the year
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Deseret News knew about hot tub incident in 2002, but failed to report it
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Howell "Jayson Blair" Raines: Why haven't old-school news orgs blown the whistle on Ailes?
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
WP now praised for running same-sex kiss photo
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
A critic questions Time's decision to put Hanks on its cover
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Associated Press' iPad app to be ready April 3
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Q. While I used to enjoy reading the comments section of Post articles, they now are dominated by racist, conspiracy theory rants. The opposite approach is used by the Times which monitors the posts and deletes the nuts while still allowing healthy debate. ...........Marcus Brauchli: We do police them but rely in part on readers to alert us to offensive posts. In addition, we're evaluating other ways to regulate the quality of comments.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Report: Amanpour has been offered "This Week" job
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
'High quality, ethically sound journalism will be alive and well after our grandchildren are dead'
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
'For so many reasons and in so many ways, things are better than they used to be' in journalism
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Real foodies should be concerned that restaurant critics are an endangered species
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
You are here because you understand. The yin and yang of snailpapers and mass media and mass marketing -- so marvelously, mutually sustaining for many years -- have decoupled. The digital universe that pried them apart is itself a marvel, shifting power from the few to the many and altering human behavior, not to mention economies, on a grand scale. The question is what to do now.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Bob Garfield, author of ''The Chaos Scenario'' is worried about the changes being brought about by the collapse of the mass advertising model, and with it the mass media. While he is 'optimistic about the future, he compares the pain being experienced by media professionals and snailpapers today to the dislocation that occurred when the craft/artisan economy gave way to the Industrial Revolution. ...therell be a decade or two of chaos that precedes new models, he says...
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
''High quality, ethically sound journalism will be alive and well after our grandchildren are dead'.....That's what Lee Rainie tells Leonard Witt. "News organizations are trying to adapt to the new realities that will allow them to provide [high quality journalism], and there will always be a portion of the population who deeply cares about public life and civic life and the way that public institutions perform."
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
The Providence Journal in Rhode Island is poised to run an oped commentary about snailpapers and the future of print journalism, with a link to this song.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Hi Dan,
Thanks for your interest and oped submission about this song! I will be able to publish this only after our Spring Break (for 3/29)....
Sincerely,
Niki Krieg
Executive Op-ed Editor
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Ebert: 'The mood is now one of fingers-crossed optimism' at Chicago Sun-Times
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Sol Gittelman of Tufts University who taught me everything I know about the old Forward in NYC, told me in a recent email re this song: ''I still read three a day, in my hand!''
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Daisy Whitney of Beet TV watched the video and said: "It was cute! I watched it, but I don't think it's right for Beet. Thanks for thinking of us though."
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
I hope some sort of concord can be reached between the two camps as a divide like this can only be bad for journalism as a whole.
I'd be interested to see in the future if and how these two poles of journalism find a way to work together which is best for the industry as a whole. Ultimately, I'd like to see the best of both worlds combine to produce faster and more interesting copy in the future.
Ally
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Andrew John Hobbs in the UK writes in to say: " Thanks Dan, finally got round to listening to it -- I feel the same way!"
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Weve entered The Last Days of Media. Traditional publishers economics cant stand up against the overwhelming volume of new content and ad inventory being manufactured by the likes of blogs, Facebook, Myspace, Craigslist et al. What will New York City and the nation look like without the New York Times?
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
SXSW10: Media Armageddon: What Happens When The New York Times Dies?
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
CNN, MTV, Mashable and Facebook Discuss How Crowdsourcing Is Affecting Reporting
.....
"The way CNN reports a story today is fundamentally different than the way CNN would do it four years ago, before iReport,
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
John Simpson: 'I'm very pessimistic about the future of the BBC'
.....
The BBC world affairs editor on how Rupert Murdoch has ruined British life,...
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Diana McClellan asked me a good question today, she said: "Danny, what's your goal with this video and song?"......I said "Just to give people in the news business a chuckle and a smile and maybe a guffaw and a memory trip down memory lane, that's all. The handwriting's already on the wall....."
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
I was reading Alan Mutter's spot-on Andreessens not-so-hot idea for publishers and once again ran across some comments of the "newspapers need to set up separate online operations and give them freedom" variety.
Here's the problem: It's been done, over and over. It's being done right now. It's happening in ways you don't see, and I promise you won't like the outcome. -- Yelvington blogs this.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Give me more #.......!
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
This video now has 1073 hits, and a new way to write "hits" is like this. This video now has 1073#, and a new way to write hits is with a pound sign after the number of hits a site gets....
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
'Manning (S.C.) Times' Staff Departs to Start New Paper
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Hundreds Laid off at 'Honolulu Advertiser'
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Daily Named Best Texas Small Paper Converts to Online-Only
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
'Washington Post' Readies Launch of New Pub 'Capital Business'
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Roy MacGregor notes: ...''() It is a terrible vision of what journalism could evolve into as it enters a world it so desperately wishes to own, but has little idea of what the available measures in this digital world actually mean.''
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Roy MacGregor at the Globe and Mail on the damage that chasing hits-- aka # in new parlance, -- online can do to journalism and why circulation and web traffic should not be confused with circulation:.....''Why be a storyteller when a ranter will have far more traffic? Why be investigative when instigative is a far quicker route to success on the web?...
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Thank you Jennifer Saba for that report below!
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Traffic at the top three newspaper Web sites - The New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today - amounted to half that of the top three cable channels. Cable sites also enjoy more loyalty among readers who spend more time on site per month at 23 minutes and 36 seconds versus newspaper Web sites time spent of 10 minutes and 18 seconds.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Despite the flourishing of new media organizations the report gets to the heart of the problem: cost effective technology has yet to translate into dollars. "Unless some system of financing the production of content is developed, it is difficult to see how reportorial journalism will not continue to shrink, regardless of the potential tools offered by technology," said the report.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
"For newspapers, which still provide the largest share of reportorial journalism in the United Sates, the metaphor that comes to mind is sand in an hourglass," stated the report.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
NEW YORK Newspaper advertising revenue plunged an astounding 45% over the last three years forcing publishers to make drastic reductions to the actual size of the print edition, to the space devoted to news to the ranks of employees.
Those findings are the latest from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism State of the News Media 2010 report that starkly quantifies the affects of a nasty recession and the sweeping structural changes faced by media organizations.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Newspapers will benefit from the end of the recession, said the report, however it also noted that newspapers are their own worse enemies: "Far too many papers are at risk of becoming insubstantial," warned the report. "They lack the heft to be thrown up on the front porch or to satisfy those readers still willing to pay for a good print newspaper."
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
The State of Newspapers? Think of Sand Falling in an Hourglass, Pew Report Says
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
What about Jeff Jarvis view that news, instead will be made up of the topic, meaning a blog or site that treats a topic as an ongoing and cumulative process of learning, digging, correcting, asking, answering.?
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Howard Weaver sums up one of the big shifts in journalism pretty damn well:
In my salad days journalists relied on one tool to handle it all the constantly changing river of news as well as the intricate web of process and relationships. Our tool was the story, a finite prose narrative anchored to one spot in time all the news we could gather and report by midnight, more or less. Compared to the alternatives of the day, it was a rich and powerful source of information.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Theres a very smart new blog on the scene, called The Future of Context. Its run by Matt Thompson of Newsless, with input from Jay Rosen, Tristan Harris and Staci Kramer. The aim of the blog is a noble one: we wanted to bring some context to the question of context.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
While narrative prose will always play a central role in human communication, the future of public service journalism does not reside with the story.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Matt Thompson says:......I think were on the verge of an epochal advancement in journalism. Weve spoken for years about the radical evolution that must take place, but I think our ideas are only now matching our ambitions. In recent years, our craft has gotten quicker and glitzier and slightly more in touch, but all our progress has been incremental. Now, the paradigm shift is finally at hand
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Want to know Steve Ballmer's outlook for the future of media ?....: In the next 10 years, the whole world of media, communications and advertising are going to be turned upside down .....Number one, there will be no media consumption left in 10 years that is not delivered over an IP network. There will be no newspapers, no magazines that are delivered in paper form. Everything gets delivered in an electronic form.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Warren Buffet quote: If Mr. Gutenberg had come up with the Internet instead of movable type back in the late 15th century, and for 400 years we had used the Internet for news and all types of entertainment and all kinds of everything else, and I came along one day and said ...... SEE BELOW
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Warren Buffet : ....''I have got this idea: we are going to chop down some trees up in Canada and ship them to a paper mill which will cost us a fortune to run through and deliver newsprint and then well ship that down to some newspaper and well have a whole bunch of people staying up all night writing up things and then well send a bunch of kids out the next day all over town delivering this thing and we are going to really wipe out the Internet with this It aint going to happen.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
see my ''Graduation Speech to the Class of 2099'' A.D., meant for grads this year, at my YouTube site here, click on my userid above. It says we must tighten the noose around coal, words from Dr Ausubel at Rockefeller University....
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Newsman tells me: "Wow, Danny -- great stuff ......
that's fascinating about "crash blossoms" and "atomic typos."..gives your song a contemporary twist....
.....maybe Bernstein can help you out..... one of my friends in particular in NYC at Newsday might be interested in the song."
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Robert Feder, keeping tabs on the media in Chicago for 30 years and now on the vocalo blogsite, says to me, after I sent him the song: at 11:31 AM (7 minutes ago) -- "Thanks, Danny."
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
A veteran newsman who knows a thing or two about newspapers says today: "hey danny -- really like your song,.......
I could send your song to a friend in New York Times corporate who might get you on somebody's radar, if not Bill Keller's. Good luck."
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
AP bureau chief in Taiwan, who has covered wars in Israel and cross-strait contretemps and brouhahas in a teapot between Beijing and Taipei, says to this song: ''I'm glad that Carl Bernstein likes your song. However, that development is not worthy of AP coverage.'' Another good story AP refuses to dish the dirt on....SIGH.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
An editor at the Providence Journal hears the song and says: "Thanks, Dan. Actually, I think papers are coming back, different but back!" --
Robert
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
For his ninth birthday last year our eldest son Bradley received a mobile phone from his grandparents.......Within a few days he was gunning me down with it (the phone has a machine gun sound setting), playing football games on it, and listening to his favourite tunes through it.
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He seemed genuinely surprised some time later to find it could be used to communicate with other phone users.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Texting improves literacy skills in much the same way as sucking on an exhaust pipe cures asthma
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
C.F. Hanif, the editorial ombudsman at the Palm Beach Post, used this term in print one day when he wrote:
Media helped to keep 'the secret'
... Ms. Reid e-mailed her letter ("Don't make women wait days for 'morning after' pills") about the status
of the emergency contraceptive EC. An atomic typo during Spellcheck is my best guess for how EC became
EX in each case, a mistake that still should have been caught.
songsterhiragana 1 year ago
Will the last person leaving this website please turn off the lights?
songsterhiragana 1 year ago