January 21, 2008

"Wire" Critic Quote of the Day

I'm loving the season, of course, and I especially liked Sunday night's episode. Having been laid off from media companies three different times in the last decade, I've gotten the "we have to contemplate doing more with less going forward" line way too many times for one lifetime. But Jeffrey Goldberg is right about this point:

Why is there no reference whatsoever to the newspaper's Web site? Simon makes it clear in his Washington Post "Outlook" piece that he neither knows very much nor cares very much about the Web, but doesn't reality demand that we see the newsroom of the Sun feeding the beast? All this talk of finals and double dots is so archaic. Are you telling me that the cub reporter, Alma Gutierrez, would run all over the city looking for an early edition of the paper before checking to see how her story was played on the Web? I just looked—the Baltimore Sun actually does have a Web site.

Posted by Stephen Silver at January 21, 2008 02:05 PM
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Simon has explained that he left the Sun before the web arrived in newsrooms. He wrote from knowledge, and he doesn't know web journalism.

Posted by: Mithras at January 21, 2008 03:10 PM
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