On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Ray Saintonge <sainto...@telus.net> wrote:
> > The news "industry" is in as much a quandary as the music and film > industries. It's a model that depends heavily on news as entertainment. > > That's a dilemma I discussed in some depth in a post that appears to have gotten buried, in terms of a conversation with a Washington Post reporter. "Infotainment" is an example of a safe short term managerial choice for that industry: it brings readership and keeps the advertisers coming. Earlier this month my friends were laughing whe NYT actually ran a headline to assure readers that the world wouldn't end in 2012. Part of that laughter enjoyed the absurdity while part of it was nervous for the future of that newspaper. -Durova -- http://durova.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
