News: free v. free time
: Editors Weblog quotes Henry Scott, managing director of the NY Metro free paper just launched (ex NYT):
“To attract young readers, newspapers must understand this formula: Time + Money
3 responses to “News: free v. free time”
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But isn’t this dangerous? The more news stories get truncated, the more gets left on the editing room floor. Such decisions will inherently be biased. (I don’t necessarily mean the news will be purposefully slanted in one direction or another). No, of course, bias always exists in the newsroom, but this trend to make articles shorter and shorter seem to make it even worse.
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This requires that the editors be trusted. The reader depends on the editor to reflect a consistent bias and not deceive or manipulate.
Fast news can mislead and misconstrue. Reading is for perspective and context. Reading is more leisurely pursuit than broadcast-dancing-wiggling-flashes of color and soundbite. Broadcast news is not for those who seek perspective or context.
Individual content newspapers? Seems the internet is only way to make that presentation. The reader will still need to know and trust the editor. Would this be a role for the webblogger? -
Frankly, as far as I can tell from the brief excerpt, what this means is that Henry Scott shouldn’t be allowed near an equation.
