Author: Jack Lail

  • Read with me

    What I’ve been reading lately. (photo from the Newscoma)

  • Color it preposterous

    The “Financial Crisis” version of  “Blame the Journalists.” I believe a former investigative reporter for Atlanta’s daily newspaper likely pitched the snowball that grew into the avalanche and buried our leading mortgage institutions. That’s the “blame the journalists” premise from journalist Mike Masterson in a column last week in the Arkansas Gazette Democrat. Not Freddie,…

  • Sleepless in the corner office

    “It just seems impossible to me that you’re cutting costs dramatically without having some impact on the editorial quality of your product,” said Peter Appert, a newspaper analyst at Goldman Sachs. “I can’t prove that this is driving circulation, but it’s certainly something that if I were a newspaper publisher would keep me up at…