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Craig Newmark likes newspapers, really

Started by mathewi · 11 months ago

It’s more than a little ironic that Craig “Craigslist.org” Newmark — the guy whose classified service is making $50-million or so a year more or less by accident, and eating the lunch of various metropolian newspapers in the process — i ... Continue reading »

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  • I would guess that a great number of us bloggers share Craig's high esteem of journalists. If there was a bump at WeMedia, it wasn't between bloggers and journalists. It was between new media champions and old media dinosaurs. The people running media companies are not journalists. They regard journalists as an overhead problem, just one evolutionary step above the swamp creatures known as bloggers.
  • Thanks for the comment, Shel. I would have a tendency to agree -- I think bloggers and the average rank-and-file journalist might have more in common than either one would with the executives who run media conglomerates.

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