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    • Wishful Thinking at The New York Times [view article]
      The NYT is laughable. As a longtime observer of the media technology industry, I'm surprised by the naivete of the Times. In 1999, I was working with a large competitor of The Times which owned newspaper, television, radio and cable outlets in numerous large markets. Their goal was to combine news operations whenever and wherever possible an use television reporters to cover stories with the greatest video potential, radio reporters to cover stories where audio was the best medium for the message and newspaper reporters for in-depth, text heavy stories. I am not hearing this company lament media deregulation or cross-ownership relaxation.

      Perhaps the NYT wants to level the playing field. Perhaps they would be happy if radio and television outlets were forced to follow the distribution model of a newspaper. If so, over-the-air, cable and satellite distribution would be outlawed and broadcasters would be forced to record all content onto CD's or DVD's and deliver that to paid subscribers in their homes.

      Get with the times, Times!
      Dec 18 01:20 PM
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