“When you buy a newspaper, you aren’t buying news – you’re buying judgment. Already in this low tech world of instant communications there is too much news. That’s the problem. Raw news will do just fine if you’re a computer buff and want to play editor. But I, for one, would rather let a professional take the first raw cut at history and spend my leisure time fishing.”
Well, he’s right on one count. “[O]ne can no longer rely on customer understanding and goodwill (to allow) for poor quality or early deadlines and incomplete stories…new technology alone won’t improve a lousy newspaper. Only an editor can do that.”
I would append owner to that as well. the NYT’s main problem has two wrong heads: owner and editor. Neither will be missed.
One would think that by 1994 the NYT would have known that the educational system was no longer teaching kids how to read, but rather how to feel good about themselves even though they were going to go through life in a state of ignorance.
Fifteen years later, schools are teaching them how to masturbate and use flavored condoms. All part doing what feels good.
What the heck most kids to day think they will get a good job because they are special and who wouldn’t want to hire them.
The surprise packages are being opened now and it’s ugly.
“But I, for one, would rather let a professional take the first raw cut at history and spend my leisure time fishing.”
~Punch Sulzberger
I wonder if the “professional” Punch had in mind was Jason Blair.
So much whistling, so many graveyards.
Life before Craigslist cut them off at the knees.
My thirty-something kids do not even know what a newspaper is.
“When you buy a newspaper, you aren’t buying news – you’re buying judgment.”
Yup – bad judgement.
“When you buy a newspaper, you aren’t buying news – you’re buying judgment.”
Which is why people are refusing to buy newspapers.
Abe, you’re more right than you know. One of the more interesting management books I’ve read lately is “Not Everyone Gets a Trophy: How to Manage Generation Y” and the entire thesis, essentially, is that these kids think they’re smarter and better than everybody else from Day One, and expect constant ego massage. The book labels them “the most high-maintenance workforce generation ever” and they’re not wrong.
“When you buy a newspaper, you aren’t buying news – you’re buying judgment.”
Yup, Like you don’t need to know anything about the 18,000 murdered in the Ciudad Juarez area alone.
npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125427225
About the drug helicopters flying 100 km into US air space with impunity.
topix.net/forum/state/tx/TPR1JG21CGT40Q2DT
Judgment! There is so much you really don’t need to know. Leave it to us.
When you buy a newspaper, you aren’t buying news – you’re buying judgment.
Yup, Like you don’t need to know anything about the 18,000 murdered in the Ciudad Juarez area alone.
npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125427225
About the drug helicopters flying 100 km into US air space with impunity.
topix.net/forum/state/tx/TPR1JG21CGT40Q2DT
Judgment! There is so much you really don’t need to know. Leave it to us.
When you buy a newspaper, you’re buying a rush to judgement.
That’s why it’s important people on this blog do not act like newspapers.
“When you buy a newspaper, you aren’t buying news – you’re buying judgment. Already in this low tech world of instant communications there is too much news.”
File this under “Famous Last Words”.
When you buy a newspaper, most of the time, you’re buying a “progressive”, alias Twilight Zone, view of reality. It’s constructed both of lies of commission (lies and distortions) and lies of omission (failure to report news).
Media types – they just do not get it. Sure, they have web sites also, which is good. but But BUT, in this day and age ‘Juxtapose’ is just a click away. That! is the difference.
Before the Internet it took months if not years for a cr*p media story to be shot down. It took a lot of time, effort and expense to obtain the unadulterated news story. Libraries, phone calls, stamps, in person. Other media outlets we’re usually of no help because Reuters, AP, Thonpson, Power Corp called the tune.
We all felt ‘alone-in-the-world’ as there was no way of knowing what others we’re thinking. The world has changed big-time !! Even the media’s public opinion polls have lost their advantage. We know they are agenda driven and biased, otherwise they would not hide their raw data.
When you buy a newspaper, most of the time, you’re buying a “progressive”, alias Twilight Zone, view of reality. It’s constructed both of lies of commission (lies and distortions) and lies of omission (failure to report news).
Like so many others here, The MSM has little or no influence.
I have the local FM for easy listening and the usual inaccurate weather forecasts….
local news such as when/where the superslab is closed because a big-rig has upset.
Maybe a bit of video about that unpronouncable volcano in Iceland.
911 got some valid coverage but…..about the only valid report was the street celebrations by Arafat’s followers…..
Except for entertainment/distraction, few of us would miss TV and radio if they failed….as long as our IP worked.
News papers are great for lining a bird cage, and cleaning windows. Reading, not so much.
Has anyone considered that one of the first major blows to the news paper industry might have been the channel guide on your cable box. If I recall, my parents only received the news paper the day the guide was in it.
The paper media wants to blame the internet, but I’d argue that the book industry is thriving, and you can bit torrent most books on audio, for free. Perhaps the Ipad will change consumer habits; time will tell.
“When you buy a newspaper, you aren’t buying news”
That’s all he had to say.
He would have saved that cash-strapped paper some ink too.
“When you buy a newspaper, you aren’t buying news”
That’s all he had to say.
He would have saved that cash-strapped paper some ink too.
Most of you know I’m not a stellar intellectual as most of you can tell from my replies to my postings at the SDA web site, but I do enjoy reading our local newspaper in the morning. It gives my wife and I something to discuss. Oh well, I’ll enjoy reading the rag tomorrow Saturday morning. Sleep tight and take care and, of course, God bless…
““Punch” Sulzberger speaks — from out of the past”
I’ve always thought that Sulzberger spoke from out of somewhere else, but maybe I just misheard.
Don’t make me get all Aristotelian on your ass. Every complete sentence is a judgment. Perhaps what your trying to say is the judgments in the papers are bullshit?