Month: September 2009

  • Disaster is spelled I-N-T-E-R-N-E-T

    Lauren Rich Fine on what has happened: “Traditional media failed to realize the competitive challenge created by the Internet as it allows all media to compete directly and without any competitive advantage,” said Lauren Rich Fine, a former media analyst at Merrill Lynch and now a Practitioner in Residence at Kent State University’s College of…

  • Trend lines still perilous for newspapers

    Martin Langeveld, analyzing, the latest Newspaper Association of America revenue data: As I’ve argued previously with regard to the NAA’s views on how newspapers are doing in the online arena, where they enjoy less than 1 percent of consumer attention, this data shows the crisis relates to market share, and that newspapers are in danger…

  • No photo of government transparency available

    It’s outrageous that a school board and a state school board association would base efforts to limit cameras at public meeting on an attorney general’s opinion that has been declared unconstitutional. But that’s what the Loudon County (Tenn.) Board of Education would like to do. It would be interesting to see how that is explained…