Those who argue that print is dead (and that newspapers are obsolete) tend to base their prognostications on the futility of the ad-based business model. If you’re solely interested in making money, then, arguably, that makes sense. But such analysis misses the qualitative fact that journalism is about public service and stories that take time to report and column inches to be properly told.
This much-passed around NYT piece about the sadistic owner of a rogue eyeglass operation is the perfect example of the kind of long ball journalism that the web simply cannot support. Ironic, then, that it’s about an e-commerce operation, and that it has inspired a groundswell of post-publication adulation, nearly all of it via social networks.
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