NYT threatens Boston Globe?
Am I the only person who thought of this classic National Lampoon cover illustration when I heard this news over the weekend: New York Times Co. is Said to Consider Closing The Boston Globe?
As far as bargaining tactics go, this seems like an incredibly high stakes game of “Chicken” from the Times Co.
The Globe last year reported weekday circulation of 324,000, the 14th highest in the country, and Sunday circulation of 504,000, the 11th highest.
Of course, there’s a part of me that wants to say, “Go ahead” and see if the Times is serious about closing the Globe. But that part of me is tempered by the lives that would be impacted by such a move.
The six stages of media twitter coverage hell
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Mike Elgan makes a funny. The Six Stages of Media Twitter Coverage Hell.
He misses a stage:
7. Twitterati make fun of coverage to gain traffic.
To quote Mr. Elgan:
The so-called backlash is just the media’s knee-jerk pseudo-contrarianism, right on schedule. Obviously Twitter has been clearly overexposed and overhyped in the media, and now reporters and commentators are both slamming their own hype, and, inevitably, attacking Twitter itself.
My advice: Don’t take any of it too seriously. The media does this with every truly major Internet phenomenon that comes along. It happened with the Internet itself, then e-mail, then the Web, then the tech bubble, then social networking and now Twitter.
heh.
Honestly, I don’t care who’s covering Twitter. It’s the same as Facebook, MySpace, blogging, IM, etc. Play the same record so many times and it gets old. Just enjoy the ride, because it’ll come around again.
Do what you want. Use it. Don’t use it. Talk about it, write the lifestyles feature. Whatever. I’ll keep plugging away.
Am I getting too cynical in my old age?
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