December 2009
13 posts
“I think that the closer you are to a flame and the more you see people getting...”
– One final quote from David Simon, from the Vice Magazine article I quoted endlessly last week.
“If unbridled cost cutting and raw optimism are enough to save newspapers, they...”
– Alan Mutter. For those who care about the state of the newspaper industry and what might come to pass in 2010, go read the entire thing. You might need a stiff drink first, however.
“[N]obody wants to write endings in television. They want to sustain the...”
– Continued genius from David Simon, here. Cough, David Chase, cough.
“Newspapers have less and less ambition and are demanding less and less of...”
– Another gem from David Simon in his Vice Magazine interview. I agree with this sentiment a great deal— maybe only a smidgen when it comes to the national papers, but undoubtedly true when you look at the regional papers.
“We live in an oligarchy. The mother’s milk of American politics is money, and...”
– Vice Magazine has a long, wonderful Q&A with David Simon, the brain’s behind the amazing (and now-concluded HBO series), “The Wire.” Give it a read, lots of great insights to be found.
I’m going to quote a couple of other selections besides the above, but one point...
John Hodgman on Achieving Fame: Get Really, Really...
Haven’t seen this elsewhere, but had to share something John Hodgman wrote for Entertainment Weekly, on how to become a pop culture icon in just 10 short years:
If you want to become a popular culture icon, it really does help to go on television. Actually, “icon” is a hard word to wear. I mean, I’m actually wearing a very large golden medallion right now that says...
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Young Manhattanite's Turn at Deadspin
Well done, gentlemen and ladies. Is there a petition around that one can sign to have you do this every week at a different Gawker Media site and, even, others? Think of the possibilities…
Also!: Think of the public good that can be done here, in and of itself, just by the YM collective being off the streets.
Are We Witnessing a "Lost Generation" Being...
Alan Mutter hits it out of the park, calling it “journicide”:
Vanishing employment opportunities and shrinking freelance compensation threaten to wipe out a substantial percentage of the next generation of professional journalists.
This journicide, to coin a term, is not merely going to be difficult and disappointing for the affected young people, who mostly will move on to find...
