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Dowd on Barack Spock, beam me up
- siculars 17y agoLink to print version... alas nyt hijacks it with advertising. woe is them, woe is them. Unfortunately newspapers are an endangered species. Dowd writes: David Simon, the creator of “The Wire,” who worked for 13 years as a Baltimore Sun reporter, testified that “high-end journalism is dying,” and when that happens, and no one is manning the cop shops and zoning boards, America will enter “a halcyon era for state and local political corruption.” IMHO, high-end journalism is takin' a beating. But they aint dead and never will be. What is dying is the newspaper medium. That will most likely go the way of the horse and buggy, only to be seen on trips to central park and amish country. What news publishers need is a new business model. Oddly enough, it is coming from places like the NYT. Go figure. Check out http://developer.nytimes.com http://developer.nytimes.com to see what I'm talking about.
- olefoo 17y agoIt's good to know that the old gray lady is upholding the fine traditions of reasoned, coherent argument supported by the facts in it's editorial content. Maureen Dowd turns in another excellent performance that doesn't at all read like it was written after a pitcher of Margaritas consumed while watching the latest hit movie. Not at all.