As of a year ago, Rupert Murdoch had never even used Google — so maybe he doesn’t realise that by cutting News Corp off from it, the organisation will cease to exist, writes Michael Wolff.
Future of the media
Vaccinating against the power of The Google
These days consumers have access to a wealth of health information. So why would they listen to a journalist? Well, The Google doesn’t know everything, writes Nick Miller. Factual analysis is worthy too.
Crikey costs trimmed, but not the attitude
The contributor budget has been cut here at Crikey, leading some to fear the publication will be run with a harder commercial edge following recent changes in ownership and management.
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Politico and Wash Post to engage in DC territorial pissing
Online political news site Politico is going to launch a local Washington DC edition of the site, headed up by the former editor of WashingtonPost.com. It’s a pretty direct attack on The Washington Post’s DC supremacy, and HuffPo has its hands on an internal memo that outlines the plans.
The real-time web: a Brave New World or hideous dystopia?
Sitting at a Weezer concert, next to Twitterati who’ve never heard of the band, where everyone is too busy blogging about the show to actually watch it, Paul Carr wonders whether the real-time web isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
UK’s Channel 4: File-sharing is here to stay. Embrace it.
Today’s “internet native” generation are never going to give up sharing and downloading things illegally over the internet, says an editor from the UK’s Channel 4. Attempting to lock up content will always fail: the future of the media is “spreadable and shareable”.
The year the media died
YouTube and L McDuff have blessed the world with an appalling mangling of “American Pie” to the theme, “The year the media died” — it’s so awful it’s good.
Unemployed journo takes up personal PR
An unemployed Melbourne journalist turns to YouTube to promote himself.
Note to Senator Kerry: newspapers are f-cked
Why are we bailing out the past when we should be investing in the future?
Media are stabbing in the dark to survive
Media managers are jumping on the bandwagon of every new technological trend that comes their way in an attempt to survive — but will that work without a clear plan of attack?
Murdoch, self pity and the cruel future of journalism
Murdoch is wrong, it’s not self-pity, but pride in their work that is fuelling concern among a lot of journalists, writes Jonathan Este.
Crikey’s Death of American Newspapers wrap
Newspaper sales in the US have been declining for years, but the global financial crisis looks set to push the American print media industry off a cliff. Is this the death of American newspapers?
NY Times is ‘junk’, says Standard & Poors
It seems there’s nowhere for traditional media to hide, and nothing to protect them against the impact of the slump in the economy and the ravages of the internet and rising costs, writes Glenn Dyer.
Radio National program cuts don’t add up
Is Radio National’s turmoil a consequence of the failure to understand on-line and how on-air programming relates to it? asks Andrew Dodd.
Media and privacy II: we need a bill of rights
It is beyond argument that currently the Australian law does not adequately protect the right of all individuals in our society to privacy, writes Greg Barns
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
Melbourne Channel Nine News’ third top news story involved a scoop about a group of bridesmaids who were forced to wear tracksuits to a wedding when their dresses didn’t turn up.
