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I found this interesting as the line between a reputable news source and a blog has become significantly blurred. Especially in Europe where the most read prin
by wheels 18y ago
I found this interesting as the line between a reputable news source and a blog has become significantly blurred. Especially in Europe where the most read printed news sources are tabloids, it's difficult seeing something that tends to be high quality like ReadWriteWeb being shortchanged. Honestly, I've never even really thought of it as a blog; it's a tech news site run on a blogging platform.
- jacquesm 18y ago"Especially in Europe where the most read printed news sources are tabloids" That must be a europe where I don't live. In England and Germany maybe, but most other countries actually have a surprisingly large 'regular' newspaper distribution network (in Amsterdam in any newspaper stand you can find newspapers in 3 or 4 languages). And even in England and Germany the tabloids aren't seen as real newspapers by the majority of the people. They fall somewhere in the gray area between news and entertainment.
- wheels 18y agoYep, I'm most familiar with England in Germany where the most widely read newspapers are in fact tabloids (Bild Zeitung, Sun, et al). But that wasn't really my point: it was that the line between "published source" and "blog" doesn't say much about quality, illustrated by the fact that popular printed newspapers in some European countries are, well, horrible.
- wheels 18y agoI was curious on this, so I just looked up stats. It turns out Bild Zeitung is the most popular newspaper in all of the west, followed by The Sun. http://www.wan-press.org/article2825.html http://www.wan-press.org/article2825.html