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With the Internet I find I get more instant "this just happened" news (without analysis, with lame analyis or with inaccuracies). I'd be willing to go to a week

With the Internet I find I get more instant "this just happened" news (without analysis, with lame analyis or with inaccuracies). I'd be willing to go to a weekly format with more thoughtful analysis. Take The Economist for instance, it's not what I read to find out what's happening now. It's what I read to find out why things are happening.

bigthboy 18y ago
I have to agree with you, when it comes down to the internet, its all about the ease of distributing information about whats happening RIGHT NOW. Take most of the technology blogs, and even HN for example. A great portion of what's on here or coming through the blogs is an overview or look at whats happening right now, today, or information about what somebody did TODAY. I also use these sources everyday as a primary source of what's going on. However, when I want a full fledged story about not only what is happened but what has happened and why it happened I tend to go to other sources, the Wall Street Journal for example. However, what you need to notice is that even the more complex periodicals are also moving online. Newsweek, the WSJ itself, the New York Times, and so on and so forth. I think it truly is just a matter of time before even these move to a totally online system. No more Time Magazine delivered every day to your mailbox, instead its in your inbox.
dmv 18y ago
Likewise, I read monthlies like Portfolio for even deeper investigation and higher profile features. And funny enough, this month there was a light interview with Marc Andreessen (http://www.portfolio.com/executives/features/2008/10/15/Marc-Andreessen-Q-and-A http://www.portfolio.com/executives/features/2008/10/15/Marc...): If you were running the New York Times, what would you do? Shut off the print edition right now. You’ve got to play offense. You’ve got to do what Intel did in ’85 when it was getting killed by the Japanese in memory chips, which was its dominant business. And it famously killed the business--shut it off and focused on its much smaller business, microprocessors, because that was going to be the market of the future. And the minute Intel got out of playing defense and into playing offense, its future was secure. The newspaper companies have to do exactly the same thing. The financial markets have discounted forward to the terminal conclusion for newspapers, which is basically bankruptcy. So at this point, if you’re one of these major newspapers and you shut off the printing press, your stock price would probably go up, despite the fact that you would lose 90 percent of your revenue. Then you play offense. And guess what? You’re an internet company.

bigthboy 18y ago

I have to agree with you, when it comes down to the internet, its all about the ease of distributing information about whats happening RIGHT NOW. Take most of the technology blogs, and even HN for example. A great portion of what's on here or coming through the blogs is an overview or look at whats happening right now, today, or information about what somebody did TODAY. I also use these sources everyday as a primary source of what's going on. However, when I want a full fledged story about not only what is happened but what has happened and why it happened I tend to go to other sources, the Wall Street Journal for example. However, what you need to notice is that even the more complex periodicals are also moving online. Newsweek, the WSJ itself, the New York Times, and so on and so forth. I think it truly is just a matter of time before even these move to a totally online system. No more Time Magazine delivered every day to your mailbox, instead its in your inbox.

dmv 18y ago

Likewise, I read monthlies like Portfolio for even deeper investigation and higher profile features. And funny enough, this month there was a light interview with Marc Andreessen (http://www.portfolio.com/executives/features/2008/10/15/Marc-Andreessen-Q-and-A http://www.portfolio.com/executives/features/2008/10/15/Marc...): If you were running the New York Times, what would you do? Shut off the print edition right now. You’ve got to play offense. You’ve got to do what Intel did in ’85 when it was getting killed by the Japanese in memory chips, which was its dominant business. And it famously killed the business--shut it off and focused on its much smaller business, microprocessors, because that was going to be the market of the future. And the minute Intel got out of playing defense and into playing offense, its future was secure. The newspaper companies have to do exactly the same thing. The financial markets have discounted forward to the terminal conclusion for newspapers, which is basically bankruptcy. So at this point, if you’re one of these major newspapers and you shut off the printing press, your stock price would probably go up, despite the fact that you would lose 90 percent of your revenue. Then you play offense. And guess what? You’re an internet company.