Posts Tagged as ‘media’

July 26, 2009

Our Celebrity Culture

I found out about Michael Jackson’s cardiac arrest  just after coming home from work at the Thomasville Times (which has a new Web site). Soon after, I heard that the artist had died. The frenzy that followed in the coming days and even weeks made me think of a question asked by kram on my [...]

June 17, 2008

Is there a future for newspapers?

There were some good ideas posted on my first entry. Thanks! I’ll start on those soon, but there’s something I want to write about first.
McClatchy, a major newspaper company, cut 10 percent of its workforce yesterday. That’s about 1400 jobs, 123 of them in Charlotte. (I first found out by following The Charlotte [...]