Wednesday, September 01, 2004
Who Do You Trust, The Wiki Or The Reporter?:
"Well, it's instructive to note that Fasoldt is a traditional print reporter, making his living from newspaper sales. He has a vested interest in perpetuating the myth of the corporate press's superiority over non-profit, open-source community. That stuff that Wired was raving about in the 90's, about print becoming obsolete and traditional authorities standing in unemployment lines; those notions are alive and well as fears in the minds of those athorities.
No doubt a certain amount of pride factors in as well. He didn't do his job, and that's plain for anyone to see. To admit he was wrong, and in print, will require both a delicacy and tactical deftness usually found in more widely-circulated pubs like the NYT and the Washington Post.
As a rule of thumb: the smaller the paper, the more delusional, lazy, and stubborn its opinion columnists.
Maybe this is the real reason that small town newspapers are dying."
Wikipedia proves its amazing self-healing powers
"Well, it's instructive to note that Fasoldt is a traditional print reporter, making his living from newspaper sales. He has a vested interest in perpetuating the myth of the corporate press's superiority over non-profit, open-source community. That stuff that Wired was raving about in the 90's, about print becoming obsolete and traditional authorities standing in unemployment lines; those notions are alive and well as fears in the minds of those athorities.
No doubt a certain amount of pride factors in as well. He didn't do his job, and that's plain for anyone to see. To admit he was wrong, and in print, will require both a delicacy and tactical deftness usually found in more widely-circulated pubs like the NYT and the Washington Post.
As a rule of thumb: the smaller the paper, the more delusional, lazy, and stubborn its opinion columnists.
Maybe this is the real reason that small town newspapers are dying."
Wikipedia proves its amazing self-healing powers
