Here’s what I do when a link to a newspaper article—it’s always newspapers—makes me log in to read it: Close the window.
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“We get the media we spend our attention on.”
Buzzmachine on the AP News fiasco
If you’re interested at all in the newspaper industry, you should read these posts by Jeff Jarvis.
- A proposal to the Associated Press: A link ethic
- AP, hole, dig
- Hey, Saul
- The link economy v. the content economy
- Whither the AP
Today’s standdown doesn’t reduce the impact of his points at all.
“The internet is a connection machine. It’s not medium or a market, though it supports them. Instead, it adds a new dimension of links over society, connecting people with information, action, and each other. It is in those connections that value is created, efficiency is found, knowledge is grown, and relationships are formed. Every link and every click is a connection… .”
Oh, poor reporters :(
From Slate’s Today’s Papers:
Campaign workers may be exhausted from all the campaigning, but so are the journalists who have to follow them around, notes the WP’s Howard Kurtz. Although the media are often accused of trying to prolong the horse race, some reporters just want it to end. “This is a really strange phenomenon in that you’re seeing people who can’t wait for it to be over,” says Time’s Ana Marie Cox. “There’s only so many stories you can write, and we’re running out of them.”
Here’s an idea. How ‘bout they stop “follow[ing] them around” and “writing stories” and just tell us what’s news?
