22 month ago
plasticbag : Andrew Leonard of Salon responds to the David Carr post I wrote about earlier and in not enormously flattering terms... - And he's also got a point! saturation in the marketplace doesn't mean that everyone writes about Britney, it means that people specialise and there's more choice. The capitalist would argue that market failure is the biggest threat, not competition...
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22 month ago
plasticbag : David Carr talks in the New York Times about the benefits and costs of new web-native ways of reading and writing to the business of writing newspapers... - Now this is a really good article. It balances the value of 'most read' pages and blogs with the risks towards popularisation and ratings-grabbing while accepting that one way or another they're here to stay. No head in the sand.
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