Archive for October 1st, 2008

Broken breaking news: Zoning meeting relocated! Mid-level bureaucrat tasked with middling new responsibilities! Land-use plan available for comment! »

By William M. Hartnett on Oct 1, 2008 in featured, newspapers, whinging | 0 Comments

I meant to post this four weeks ago based on a Twitter update from Nick Bergus, but I’m only getting around to it today after spotting some particularly silly examples: How embarrassingly mislabeled are so many newspapers’ “breaking news” sections and items?
Most news doesn’t truly “break,” after all, despite the re-branding of some local news [...]

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By William M. Hartnett on Oct 1, 2008 in daily links | 0 Comments

Give us some credit. How the newspaper industry is about to be disembowelled by the banking crisis. - The Inksniffer
"The debt crisis is going to create a domino-like collapse of our industry in the next six months. Who will be the first to go? And who might emerge controlling the American newspaper business?" John Duncan's [...]