Slated
I like The Guardian more and more. What other paper would put a 1000 words from the novelist Ian McEwan on their front page?
There’s also an interesting piece on the American on-line magazine Slate . Sadly I cannot link to the actual article as you have to register for Media Guardian (shame!). The piece argues that Slate is translating political news and comment on-line, and is beginning to show how on-line journalism will eventually beat newsapers. The reason I am so interested is that some six years ago, a friend and me were in serious talks about launching Slate int he UK. It never happened - we started negotiations just as the dot com boom ended. But it’s a nice illustration of how the aborted dot com revolution is now in full throttle.
UK Daily Pundit said on November 27th, 2006 at 8:04 pm:
A rather good blogging journo and writer, Bryan Appleyard, sums up this idea of the decline of traditional print media brilliantly in a post ‘The Death of Print?’. I think he has it right when he says “Newspapers will go through a phase of trying to turn themselves into iPods and then, finally, return to what they do best - being newspapers.”
http://www.bryanappleyard.com/blog/2006/11/death-of-print.php