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Newspapers Don't Learn From Their Mistakes
- ojbyrne 17y agoGiven Rush Limbaugh and the amount of partisanship on the web, I don't think choosing partisan writers is a mistake at all. Extreme positions attract readership. I think the mistake is that the guy discussed isn't partisan enough. He seems like your run-of-the-mill liberal.
- pie 17y agoIt sounds to me like the argument here is that newspapers, faced with their current crisis, should be producing different (i.e. "hipper" and less "partisan" or old-fashioned) content. I'm not sure that this is the case - I'm fairly certain that all the to-do about media implosion has to do with distribution channels. I haven't heard much doubt expressed about the quality and relevance of reporting in the Times, for obvious reasons.