In a message dated 1/4/2009 8:57:04 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
Out of 2,150,000 hits on Google, it comes up on the first page: http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/nj_plog_shuns_web_and_thrives.php Thanks for the recognition, Columbia School of Journalism!!!! ============================================ My Flog was about the coinage or invention of the term "plog." It comes up here "Columbia School of Journalism" plog - Google Search or http://tinyurl.com/86tn3b only twice just repeating your own claim to coinage with the misleading implication of an imprimatur from that school of journalism. Your link to The Kicker, a blogger, at Columbia Journalism Review is fine. She simply repeats the NYT story about DJ's email to Carr. Congrats to TCN and DJ for the publicity. BTW: the UPDATE and hyperlink to Mark Potts which are now part of her blog argue forcefully against the idea of print media shunning the web. But that debate is also of no concern to me. Let the marketplace decide. Here, in full deja vu, is what your link brings up: The Kicker — December 22, 2008 09:18 AM NJ “Plog” “Shuns Web, And Thrives” By Liz Cox Barrett The TriCityNews, an Asbury Park, NJ alt weekly with a print run of 10,000, “ is prospering precisely because it ignores the Web,” reports David Carr in today’s New York Times. “Why would I put anything on the Web?” asked Dan Jacobson, the publisher and owners of the newspaper. “I don’t understand how putting content on the Web would do anything but help destroy our paper. Why should we give our readers any incentive whatsoever to not look at our content along with our advertisements, a large number of which are beautiful and cheap full-page ads?” A “‘plog’, a blog on paper” is how Jacobson describes his paper, which employs three full-time staffers and a part-timer . “A little ray of light” in the media beat is how Carr describes the story of the TriStateNews, which is “ double-digit profitable, and has been growing at a clip of about 10 percent a year since it was founded in 1999.” A real made-for-David-Carr’s-column story (which didn’t escape the publisher, who emailed the TriCityNews’s good news to Carr). UPDATE: Carr’s headline should be the much less striking: “Local Newspaper Shuns Non-Local Information And Thrives,” argues (more or less) Recovering Journalist Mark Potts. “Contrary to what Carr and Jacobson believe, the secret to the TriCityNews’ success probably isn’t that it fiercely eschews the Web. It’s that it’s fiercely local.” Way to dim Carr’s little “ray of light.” _http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/nj_plog_shuns_web_and_thrives.php_ (http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/nj_plog_shuns_web_and_thrives.php) ======================================= (http://tinyurl.com/7akd7n) **************New year...new news. Be the first to know what is making headlines. (http://www.aol.com/?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000026) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
