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Archive for March, 2009

Background on Missing the Link

Friday, March 27th, 2009

Two years ago the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) hosted a panel (audio available here) with Steven Rattner, Jim Brady, Amanda Bennett, Jill Abramson, and Robert Kuttner (with Nicholas Lemann moderating). The purpose was to discuss an article the CJR had commissioned Robert Kuttner to write on the future of print media where he essentially argued [...]

Newspapers’ decline is a sign of democracy, not a symptom of its death

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Two years ago Dave and I wrote a piece for the Columbia Journalism Review (which they opted not to publish) critical of Kuttner and the CJR’s faith in the print-hybrid model for media.
After having it sit on our hard drives all this time we are putting it up for download (back story on my next [...]