Another Christmas present:
Seeking to fortify its core assets, New York Times Co. is actively shopping its stake in the holding company of the Boston Red Sox baseball club…
My favorite bit:
former General Electric CEO Jack Welch took a serious look at the [Boston] Globe two years ago, when people close to them said they were valuing it at [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Journalism’
December 25, 2008
The Death of the Ivy League Journalist
December 12, 2008
Press Release Contagion Part II
Almost as if on cue, from stage left, another erroneous piece of science reporting struts upon the stage. USA Today’s headline: Poverty Dramatically Affects Children’s Brains. The nut:
A new study finds that certain brain functions of some low-income 9- and 10-year-olds pale in comparison with those of wealthy children and that the difference is almost [...]
December 9, 2008
The Press Release Contagion
One of the more remarkable, if disheartening aspects of the news industry is how much of the news is as artificially processed as Velveeta. I’ve been in editorial meetings where the entire upcoming news cycle has depended on press releases from PR flacks. What does that mean: it means the so-called journalists I was working [...]
