@Bunsy: Sure, you can. But if the person being charged is me - who can take it, repurpose it in my own language, and make it more profitable (the cost of paying for the NYT vs. the cost of reporting the NYT) - the value of the information drops dramatically, as quickly as I can make it my own. And I just don't think you can't protect the value of something like a huge scoop to justify what it costs to get it anymore. You've got to offer something else.
@Bunsy: Because eventually the information makes its way into the public space. In other words, if information has any value at all, that value pretty much disappears the instant it hits the air. The pay wall only works if you can control, in a very narrow way, the limits of the medium (in this case the internet). #peterkaplan
I kind of love the quote about how it takes a single day to decipher whether a reporter is worth his or her weight. That really speaks to an intuitiveness amongst quality journalists, something that perhaps cannot be taught at school but merely refined (or alternately, stunted) by grooming.
And Tina Brown is a lot [many things-er] than all of us, but that does not make her in any way something we should continue thinking about. #peterkaplan
@ampersandparade: True, on both points. But Tina Brown's going to be someone we're going to have to keep thinking about. The question remains: when (or if) Diller will tighten the purse-strings on her operation. #peterkaplan
A quick check of der Google indicates that CEP = the Communication Energy and Paperworkers union. CEP's response lambastes TorStar mgmt for dropping this bomb on the newspaper's 117th birthday. #torontostar
Have you ever READ the Toronto Star? It's really pitched for the kind of people Fran Lebowitz says can't watch television without moving their lips. Undoubtedly, they employ the same. So this is a surprise why? #torontostar
See, we can be just as snarky as our American counterparts. Just going about it in a more subtle way.
I'd like to send this unknown editor the memos I get from the head of the company I work for, (incidentally, a rival media conglomerate) they are just as vague and wordy. #torontostar
I don't know what you're all laughing at. I mean, this really alarmed me. I love my country too, and don't want my organs to organize a coup d'etat, leaving me in a terrible state. #glennbeck
yikes...i feel bad for them, but this kind of stuff does happen on the internet too easily so the caveat lies there. but really, i feel horrible for her kids. how embarrassing and much worse for them to have to deal with. #thewaywelivenow
jane aldridge: teenage fashion blogger turned vogue it-girl, turned urban outfitters designer and chanel-invitee to the crillon ball. even kanye west said he wanted to work with her. [seaofshoes.com]#wehateyourkids
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I'd like to send this unknown editor the memos I get from the head of the company I work for, (incidentally, a rival media conglomerate) they are just as vague and wordy. #torontostar
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