The farewell notice is archived here:
http://guterman.com/guterman_mediagrok/guterman_mediagrok.html

Editor and Publisher article on newspaper websites:wm
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/features_columns/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1061806

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From: "Patrick McCormick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fw: MEDIA GROK: Goodbye ... Really
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:53:22 -0700

I think they're actually shutting down this time.  The Media Grok was the
only tech-industry-news analysis daily that I know of, and I will certainly
miss it.

For my daily media analysis fix I now go to Jim Romensko's
http://www.poynter.org/medianews/

cheers,
Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: "The Industry Standard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 5:44 AM
Subject: MEDIA GROK: Goodbye ... Really


 > =====================================================================
 >                         THE INDUSTRY STANDARD'S
 >                           M E D I A  G R O K
 >                   What the Press Is Reporting and Why
 > =====================================================================
 >
 > Wednesday, September 26, 2001
 >
 > TOP GROK:
 > * Goodbye ... Really
 >
 > TOP GROK
 > ~~~~~~~~
 > Goodbye ... Really
 >
 > It might be exciting to have a lover who says goodbye, disappears for
 > several weeks, returns without any promises, and then disappears
 > again. But an e-mail newsletter that engages in the same sort of
 > behavior would be merely annoying. We don't want to annoy you any more
 > than we have already, so you're reading the final Media Grok.
 >
 > When Media Grok went away in late August and reappeared in early
 > September, many of you (OK, it was 3,801 of you) wrote to me, and all
 > but three notes were supportive. Some of you (687, precisely) wrote
 > that you'd be willing to pay for Media Grok if the advertising climate
 > remained frosty, but a smaller number of you (well, 0, to be exact)
 > actually sent me any money. If each Media Grok subscriber had sent me
 > a $10 bill, I could have outbid IDG in the bankruptcy auction, and ...
 >
 > The members of Media Grok will continue writing and editing all over
 > the place. If you send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], we'll keep
 > you posted on our whereabouts and whether anyone has coaxed us to put
 > the band back together. But don't order any "Media Grok Reunion Tour"
 > T-shirts just yet. - Jimmy Guterman
 >
 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > STAFF
 > ~~~~~
 > Written by Deborah Asbrand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Michaela
 > Cavallaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Keith Dawson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]),
 > Jen Muehlbauer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and David Sims
 > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
 >
 > Copyedited and produced by Jim Duffy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
 >
 > Edited by Jimmy Guterman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
 >
 > Media Grok has been produced by The Vineyard Group Inc., for Standard
Media
 > International. For more information on the future of Media Grok and its
staff, please visit
 > http://guterman.com.

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From: "Patrick McCormick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MEDIA GROK: Goodbye ... Really
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:00:53 -0700

 > For my daily media analysis fix I now go to Jim Romensko's
 > http://www.poynter.org/medianews/.

I should say "media news" not "media analysis".  I haven't found anything
that quite replaces Media Grok for actual analysis.

cheers,
Patrick




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