print is dying

The Federal Trade Commission’s Coming War On Bloggers

4:18AM John Cook | The FTC is planning public hearings aimed at figuring out how to prop up dying newspapers. On the agenda: tax breaks for news organisations, changing copyright law, and “greater public funding of public affairs news”. This is very, very bad. More »

Prominent Journalists Lie About Not Reading The Drudge Report

2:07AM John Cook | We’re not ones to hype Matt Drudge’s influence, but he is what he is, and New York Times editor Bill Keller and the Huffington Post’s Tom Edsall’s claims to the Observer that they don’t read Drudge are transparent lies. More »