tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266566846399659219.post3889772415075277961..comments2024-01-16T00:30:02.493-05:00Comments on That's the Press, Baby: Istory and YooDavisullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02871644412923946894noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266566846399659219.post-28293024514541768572009-06-11T22:24:55.743-04:002009-06-11T22:24:55.743-04:00All of that stems from newspapers treating their r...All of that stems from newspapers treating their readers like idiots. Now the people are firing back.<br /><br />I have little sympathy. Too many people in newsrooms today cannot write. They cannot edit. They cannot think. They are no smarter than the readers. In fact, they are usually dumber because they fail to address the myriad problems within their own offices.rknilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03424954461023330846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266566846399659219.post-12424845521622369212009-05-28T11:51:29.214-04:002009-05-28T11:51:29.214-04:00Declining young readership definitely has somethin...Declining young readership definitely has something to do with your lack of phone calls from people my age, but don't forget that a lot of us handle errors in a different way now. <br /><br />Public humiliation is the method of choice it seems. People my age choose to leave a smartass comment under the story insulting your grammatical "error" or bad headline. The other method is to scan and send the page with the "goofed" hed to a place like Failblog. I have done both with botched text in our rival paper. Option three, give it to Leno and hope he shares it on national TV.<br /><br />Impersonal, yes. But that's how the game has changed since Leno and 4chan.Luke Morrishttp://lukemorris.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3266566846399659219.post-84866705279795476092009-05-28T11:16:54.614-04:002009-05-28T11:16:54.614-04:00Lovely post, David. A pleasure to read, even if I ...Lovely post, David. A pleasure to read, even if I think the Yoo connection is a little tenuous. In those dim days of the 50s and 60s, newspapers in fact did publish lots of columns by people as dubious as Yoo, (Walter Winchell, the Alsops, Pat Buchanan) and nobody much cared. Seems to me the outrage threshold for what newspapers do has grown lower even as their influence has waned; how many protest marches were there outside the NYTimes when it played the Holocaust on one column on p14A? No, I think the kind of angst typified by the Yoo affair is mostly exogenous to the newspaper biz, except insofar as newspapers are big, single targets (much easier than attacking a school minnow-bloggers). I think what's missing in the advance handwringing about civic-life-sans daily-dead-trees is the entirely self-interested pleading from flacks and fundraisers who will lose the anchor upon which they rest like barnicles, and feed like parasites. They'll miss us more than anyone. (And by the way, nobody knows that more than your current publisher.)A Casselhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17563904058927768431noreply@blogger.com