my boss, a co-worker and i were talking last night about the rise of online news entities and the eventual eclipse of the traditional print (with online component). my co-worker told me that the reason why my boss hasn’t jumped the bandwagon yet was because “he said he is a romantic, that’s why he’s sticking [...]

News magazines and newspapers should think hard about how we would be able survive this changing world.
“Far Eastern Economic Review to shut down in December
The Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER), one of Asia’s most respected English-language news magazines, will close in December, its owner Dow Jones and Co. announced on Monday.
“Unfortunately, despite several attempts at [...]

a newsweek article on its sept 14 issue summed up what i’ve been trying to say in the past year or so.
“Can’t We Get Along?
by Laura McFeely
Ever since blogs took over the internet, mainstream media companies have been wringing their hands about bloggers’ corrosive influence, even as they’ve scrambled to get on the bandwagon…”
yeah, that [...]

stopped blogging for a month when blog.com had gone bonkers. i attempted to migrate everything to wordpress.com but it was effing tedious so i gave up.
anyway, after tita cory’s death, i had nothing else to say…got sick and tired of news about her (no offense to the family and to her) but it was overkill. [...]

Walter Cronkite, “the Anchorman”, died of cerebrovascular disease at 92.
But he repeatedly condemned television practices that put entertainment values ahead of news judgment.
“Broadcast journalism is never going to substitute for print,” he said. “We cannot cover in depth in a half hour many of the stories required to get a good understanding of the world.” [...]