studying the media ecosystem
Did MiniMediaGuy put a false face on TechDirt’s pizza analogy?
(Editor’s note: The post below is from TechDirt founder Mike Masnick, writing to rebutt my critique of his essay on copyright law. If you need more than Mike’s summary of the discussion to understand who-said-what, please read his original post and my retort. Let me note another comment briefly: Howard Owens told me Google News sells no ads around the content it scrapes, unlike Topix which [...]
It ain’t kosher to steal and resell my pizza
TechDirt founder Mike Masnick had his heart in the right place when he wrote the blog post titled, “It’s time to wean ourselves off an unhealthy addiction to copyright.” (link)
But instead of using one of the many good arguments against the abuse and extension of copyright [...]
Professional journalism has become so specialized it may not be able to adapt to a new financial ecosytem
Poynter Institute commentator Steve Outing recently wrote a post, Why Journalists Suck at Business, that he wrote in response to a similar article byMediaShift author Mark Glaser (Journalists, Bloggers Have a Sorry History at Startups).
I left a variant of the following remarks as [...]
Investment bankers set to help mass media become more massive
The Federal Communications Commission yesterday lifted the 32-year-old cross-ownership ban that had prevented one mass media chain from owning a newspaper and broadcast outlet in the same town. The agency had tried a similar move about five years ago that was eventually reversed by a court decision. Opponents of this green light for consolidation will [...]
MiniMediaGuy interviews Bizarro Superman
Since 1975 the Federal Communications Commission has prevented newspapers from buying television and radio stations in their cities. Today the three republican appointees on this five-person commission will overrule the two democratic appointees and lift this so-called cross ownership ban, allowing newspapers to buy TV stations and vice-versa. Of course the official FCC agenda uses [...]
Are fan sites the ‘comic strips’ of Web media?
Newspapers have long since discovered that a new lineup on the comics page can produce more feedback and outrage than front page stories or publishers’ crusades. Will the web relearn that lesson around fan sites?
A bit in Paid Content reports that ”the staff of StarTrek.com has been beamed out of CBS [...]
Last week I inexplicably detoured into an analysis of the 1960 lectures titled, “Science and Government,” in which British author C.P. Snow teaches us how a vegetarian crackpot advised Winston Churchill to bomb working-class German civilians during World War II, which turned out to be as militarily ineffective as it was morally indefensible. Snow used these lectures to illustrate what he considered to be [...]
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