Again, as so often before, we must trot out the eternal question: What, what are these guys thinking?
Dunno, but here’s what they’re NOT thinking:
A. “You ’know, I’ve got a pretty good deal here–decent salary, lotsa perks, some power. . . why, reporters even listen when I talk. Why would I wanna mess this up?”
B. “Can I really [...]
June 25, 2009
Sanford and the Boys: What Are They Thinking?
June 25, 2009
Can Micropayments Save the Newspapers?
In previous bemoanings of the dying American newspaper, I’ve hoped that techies would come up with some kind of simple, unintrusive system of micropayments that would allow us to pay small fees for news we get online. The always-bright James Fallows takes the ball a few more yards here .
June 25, 2009
Sanford: Alpha-Male Idiots, Media Disgrace
A drum roll, please, as we add Mark Sanford to the Clinton-Spitzer-Edwards-Ensign-Vitter-Craig Parade of Alpha-Male Idiots that’s been a regular feature on this blog. Again I shake my head, dumbfounded: What possesses people who already have so much to arrogantly, blindly grab even more?
Their collective autobiography title: Insatiable. As Springsteen sings in “Badlands”:
Poor man wanna [...]
