Even though I read and monitor more than 50 media outlets, including blogs and radio, every day, that the New York Times is considering posting its columns free smacks of being incredibly out of touch–if the news outlet is concerned about being a market leader. In this day and age, if it’s not online and free, it’s likely [...]
August 3, 2007
Lanny Davis is former special counsel to President Bill Clinton. While in the White House from 1996 through 1998, Davis was assigned the difficult tasks of handling negative allegations against the President. He had to seemingly work against the formal machinations of the White House in order to give the President credibility in the face [...]
June 7, 2007
It’s an elixir of journalism that is being used more and more to sell newspapers and newspaper ads online. The Fourth Estate’s First Amendment rights in practice guarantee that essentially anything can be said about anybody if attached to one magic word: allege. He said, she said. Truth and facts be damned. Public pissing matches [...]
August 7, 2007