“…journalism, as a field, is as addled as an addict, gaunt, wasted, and twitchy, its pockets as empty as its nights are sleepless”
In the past half century, and especially in the past two decades, journalism itself—the...
Category Archives: Newspapers
“…the story of the people vs. Haaretz is not a story of a country whose public is no longer willing to tolerate debate”
Four factors have converged to make Haaretz more annoying to Israelis today than ever...
“Relations between the president and the media are going to be bad”
Relations between the president and the media are going to be bad. The role...
“Trump flouts the epistemological basis of contemporary political discourse…”
The strange alliance that has emerged between even Trump-supporting Republican elites and a critical...
“…the national press is undoubtedly cosmopolitan in its outlook…”
I have worked in a number of newsrooms, and I know writers and editors...
“The Web didn’t introduce a new competitor into the old ecosystem…. The Web created a new ecosystem”
The newspaper used to be a pretty good answer to that question, but like...
“For people with a professional outlook, it’s hard to understand how something that isn’t professionally produced could affect them-not only is the internet not a newspaper, it isn’t a business, or even an institution”
Many people in the newspaper business, the same people who worried about the effects...
“The old bargain of the newspaper-world news lumped in with horoscopes and ads from the pizza parlor has now ended”
What holds a newspaper together is primarily the cost of paper, ink, and distribution;...
“Digital means of distributing words and images have robbed newspapers of the coherence they formerly had…”
Digital means of distributing words and images have robbed newspapers of the coherence they...