No time today for careful commentary or even an attempt to craft transitions between news items while suffering the flaky outages of my municipal wifi system... but just enough time for some aggregation and juxtaposition from The New York Times. Insert your own art or irony.
In a Changing World of News,
an Elegy for Copy Editors http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/opinion/16mon4.html
"As newspapers lose money and readers, they have been shedding great swaths of expensive expertise. They have been forced to shrink or eliminate the multiply redundant levels of editing that distinguish their kind of journalism from what you find on TV, radio and much of the Web. Copy editors are being bought out or forced out; they are dying and not being replaced. "Webby doesn't necessarily mean sloppy, of course, and online news operations will shine with all the brilliance that the journalists who create them can bring. But in that world of the perpetual present tense -- post it now, fix it later, update constantly -- old-time, persnickety editing may be a luxury in which only a few large news operations will indulge. It will be an artisanal product, like monastery honey and wooden yachts." The Associated Press to Set Guidelines
for Using Its Articles in Blogshttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/business/media/16ap.html
Jeff Jarvis response:
http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/06/16/ap-hole-dig/
Dave Winer & discussion:
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/06/16/apObjectsToQuotingandlinki.html
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/06/17/apPaytoquoteDay2.html
Slate's Editor Will Head a New Unit at the Washington Post Co.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/business/media/05post.html The Science of Sarcasm (Not That You Care) http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/health/research/03sarc.html
New Hints Seen That Red Wine May Slow Aginghttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/health/research/04aging.html
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