“Now, normally, beating up on someone like this isn’t very much fun. But we are talking about a profession that specializes in passing judgment, often snide, on everyone else. And so, onward…“
“Now, normally, beating up on someone like this isn’t very much fun. But we are talking about a profession that specializes in passing judgment, often snide, on everyone else. And so, onward…“
Wait for some saudi sheiker come in with a “life-saving” investment. We could then call it The New York Taliban.
RW…how about the Democratic Muslim News? We all know how Saudi’s love democracy.
Beating up on someone is actually lots of fun if you do it right.
When a newspaper stops reporting the news unbiased and becomes a far leftoid rag can they really be surprised that no one buys it or reads it anymore.
Funny commentary to start the day off (late) for me…
note the author’s past… as the writer of Netscape.
so, he knows a thing or two regarding this new internet thingy… and why the New York Tired isn’t making money. wow, their board is really stacked with talent.
The captain of the ship (Sulzberger, Jr.), refuses to alter course even though the list is hard to port (and the cargo is shifting left ever faster), the engines are failing (ad revenue dropping), headway slowing (circulation dropping), communication is dead (nobody listening anyway), radar gone (nobody on board watching anyway), and the rats (stockholders) are bailing overboard.
When this boat finally turns turtle and goes missing no one will even notice the ripples nor the flotsam. Who will remain to toll the bell? The left?
ma grandpappy used to say, “if you are going to lie, do it well, or don’t do it”
someone needs to tell the MSM this, so they will know why they are going down the toilet!!
All is not lost. They still have a well known brand name. Brand power allowed Caterpillar Tractor, renowned for strength and durability, to launch a successful clothing line. Why couldn’t the NYT use their renown to start a successful line of bathroom accessories?
The most powerful MSM putdown ever was the instant passing comment of the bully kid on the *Simpsons*.
Bully Kid looked up at the publisher and said something like **Hee Haaw, papers are going down the toilet**, in a taunting sing-song voice.
It was only an instant passing comment. Can not recall if I was just surfing the channels, yet the crystal clear image is permanent in my mind. = TG
The NYT must be in trouble when their science editor questions the sacred gospel of AGW.
Ooops. I thought the link was going to point to an evangelical site. My mistake.
Faster, please.
Oh, by the way…
We have a couple new technologies due to come on stream in the next five or so years.
One is WiMax, which gives you megabit-per-second wireless out to about 15-20 miles from the transmitter. There’s your New York Times et al dead as a mackerel because everybody is surfing the net on their phone.
Second is multi-core CPUs with low energy demand, suitable for running a vest pocket computer that’s as good or better than the desktop you’re reading this on. That means ultra-high quality video on your i-phone and a display to take advantage of it.
Wait until you see what happens when we get fiber-optic to the home on a wide scale.
As we know, publishing video and print on the web is cheap enough even starving airbrush artists can do it. It is going to get cheaper. Muuuch cheaper. As are cellphones and mobile connections.
Sell that MSM and Hollywood stock my friends. The info monopoly is over.
TG: His name is “Nelson Muntz”.
“Why couldn’t the NYT use their renown to start a successful line of bathroom accessories?”
With the level of business acumen on display, my instincts say: “diversification into grandfather clocks”.