A friend with a history in the British newspaper business writes:
I’m fascinated by some of the comments on Murdoch in the papers and from the WSJ newsroom — right-wing ideologue, terrible for papers etc etc.
He’s a newspaper man! He’s got ink under his fingernails! Ask any of his editors: he loves papers. That may not be why he’s
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This whole John Browne thing is really weird.
I caught the second half of a pretty interesting panel discussion on “The Conservatism and Liberalism of the 1960s: Then and Now” at the New York Public Library this (Tuesday) afternoon. The occasion was the publication of new editions of Barry Goldwater’s The Conscience of a Conservative and John Kenneth Galbraith’s The New Industrial …
What is one to make of the news that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. wants to buy Dow Jones? A decade or two ago everybody would have called it a travesty, of course. But lately Murdoch has come to look like the media titan with by far the longest view. He certainly shouldn’t be expected to go in and tear apart the company or its crown …
Going by Barry Ritholtz’s theory that magazine covers are a contrary indicator, I predict that Time‘s current cover on Jamestown means there won’t be any more major Jamestown commemorations for, say, a century.
In case you were wondering, this observation is (1) a dodgy excuse to get in my second post of the day, because The Man wants …
A former soccer teammate of mine had this to say about my posts a couple of weeks back about the constancy of the tax burden over the past half century or so. (The federal tax burden is around 18.5% of GDP, which is about the average for the post-war era, while the combined federal, state and local burden is 28.8%, a couple of percentage …
So Australia won the big match Saturday against Sri Lanka, 281 runs to 215.
I mention this mainly because it provides another opportunity to share with you the the florid and often incomprehensible brilliance that is cricket journalism. Here’s the especially florid and brilliant Rahul Bhattacharya summing things up at Cricinfo.com:
The
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I’m generally sympathetic to Chris Anderson’s argument that the Internet should shift the focus of the media business away from the fat head of blockbusters and toward the long tail of niche content. But it sure ain’t happening yet in music sales. From today’s W$J:
Thanks largely to aggressive pricing and advertising, big-box chains are
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