The good grey "New York Times" catches up
Sep 19th, 2007 by Paul Moor
With me, for example - and the rest of us blogniks.
I’ve previously mentioned Ol’ Eagle-Eye Perry Nelson here, my Knoxville, Tennessee blogfather who virtually whupped me into opening this rumpus room. I’ve known Perry for years as a virtually infallible fountain of wisdom when it comes to what my fellow Germans call Informatik - or, for short, IT, computer technology - but he also seems to do the IT equivalent of marking the sparrow’s fall: he’s just surprised me with a pertinent article about bloggery from the trade publication Advertising Age, headlined with a truncated version of “The New York Times Has Seen the Future: It’s All the Blogging That’s Fit to Print” - for you provincials an allusion to that grand old newspaper’s longtime slogan “All the News That’s Fit to Print”.
In this article, Simon Dumenco takes off on that august paper’s recent decision to stop soaking us parasites when we come around to the paper’s rich website to schnorr articles and information and revert to its earlier, less mercenary policy of making them available - to all comers - for free. Dumenco takes off thus:
“I have seen the future of The New York Times — in the Times itself.
“Last week, technology editor/reporter Saul Hansell had a short item in the business section that began, rather shockingly, ‘If there was ever a measure of how little traction Sir Howard Stringer is having as chief executive of Sony, it is the company’s comical inability to find a coherent approach to delivering content online to its wide range of digital devices.’
“Truth lives here: In blogs, Times reporters don’t suppress what they really know, feel.”
If you’d care to read that entire Advertising Age article, click here.
