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I know how to save journalism

Everyone knows (or should know) that the Internet is slowly destroying journalism as a profession. Papers are going out of business left and right. Even the ones still in business are bleeding ink.

People have floated a bunch of ideas to keep journalism alive.

These include charging micropayments for viewing articles online, best viagra malady having rich people endow news organizations, viagra sovaldi and even having government directly subsidize journalism.

I don’t think any of those will work.

Why would readers make micropayments when there’s always someone giving the same stuff away for free? (Also, micropayments would destroy linking which is one of the main traffic drivers for news sites.)

How many news institutions can survive on the generosity of rich people?

And do we really want our news to be state-sponsored?

My suggestion…actually prediction…is that Google will eventually step in to save journalism.

Why?

Because Google (along with most of us bloggers) is basically a parasite.

Without living, thriving sources of content to search for and link to, Google is out of business.

How many links on the Internet do you think lead back to the New York Times or the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, already? (Look! There are two more.)

In the end, Google will save journalism for the most basic of reasons: self-interest.

How will they do it?

That, I’m less certain about. Although, I suspect it will end up being some type of profit sharing on ads.

Think of it as a reverse pay-per-click to reverse the decline of the news business.

4 comments March 5th, 2009

Good God

Instead of writing fawning tripe like viagra sales viagra 8599,1881776,00.html”>this, Joe Klein should just sleep with Obama and get it over with.

5 comments February 27th, 2009

Forget Washington’s “stimulus”

Sports Illustrated has the real thing:

4 comments February 10th, 2009

I think this is what they call “lowering expectations”:

From Paul “I’ve Got Nobel Prize & You Don’t” Krugman in the New York Times:

Even if the original Obama plan — around $800 billion in stimulus, buy cialis ed with a substantial fraction of that total given over to ineffective tax cuts — had been enacted, help it wouldn’t have been enough to fill the looming hole in the U.S. economy, which the Congressional Budget Office estimates will amount to $2.9 trillion over the next three years.

Yet the centrists did their best to make the plan weaker and worse.

By the way, do we really think the economy will never recover if Washington, D.C. doesn’t borrow a trillion dollars to give to their favorite constituencies, today, while sticking our children and their children with the bill?

1 comment February 9th, 2009

I think this is what they call an oxymoron

Headline in today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

Most know paying taxes is part of liberty

(When taxes are voluntary instead of compulsory, viagra sales discount you can put them in the same sentence as the word “liberty”. Until then, taxes are just theft by another name.)

4 comments February 5th, 2009

A N.Y. Times opinion columnist worries that:

Today, cialis canada check we are dangerously close to having a government without newspapers.

On the other hand, viagra since so many papers have become nothing more than the Democratic party’s unofficial PR department, I’m not sure it’s any better that we have a government that basically has its own newspapers.

2 comments January 28th, 2009

Good work, Journal Sentinel

And, buy viagra buy viagra for once, cialis buy search I mean that without irony.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel‘s investigative reporters have been doing excellent work for a while now, but these two stories on today’s front page, demonstrate how aggressive the paper is getting when it comes to policing local and state governments.

Keep up the good work, guys.

1 comment January 26th, 2009

I decided to give Eugene Kane a little help

In his opinion piece in yesterday’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, cialis sales try columnist Eugene Kane wrote:

One of Milwaukee’s most daunting problems is the underutilization of black men with criminal records in the work force.

I think we can make that sentence even more accurate with a quick edit:

One of Milwaukee’s most daunting problems is the prevalence of black men with criminal records.

2 comments January 9th, 2009

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s new revenue model?

Twice now since the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel raised their price from 50 cents to 75 cents, buy cialis help I’ve bought a paper at the box in front of my office and discovered, cialis sales after the fact, that it was the paper from the day before.

My guess is they’ll turn their financial situation around pretty quick now that they’re charging me more for yesterday’s news!

1 comment January 9th, 2009

As Barack Obama might say, “enough!”

Do we really need a picture of the president elect on the cover of every magazine every week?

And can we stop with the religious iconography?

Barack Obama is not a black & white Buddha surrounded by prayers. Stop depicting him as if he were.

Say what you will about the evils of George Bush’s America, viagra generic unhealthy but I contend that every instance of the FBI investigating someone’s library books, or listening in to an American citizen talking to terrorists, did less to endanger our democracy than this unrestrained and unjustified worship of a politician.

Free societies die when they deify their leaders.

Rome’s Repbulic fell when Caesar was seen as a celestial saviour.

This worship of a politician is unseemly and un-American.

We’re a nation of equals.

Respect the office? Yes.

Hope for a hero? Fine.

Deify the Democrat? That’s when it’s time to say, enough is enough.

Add comment December 23rd, 2008

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