I think that the current crisis the media is undergoing is terrible for democracy. The loss of financial viability for the media establishment means that lots of news simply won’t be covered, because in many places, there’s no one else to cover it. The fact that their loss of viability is partially their own fault [...] Read more »

An interesting quote from his book, “The Assault on Reason”
When I first ran for Congress in 1976, I never took a poll during the entire campaign. Eight years later, however, when I ran statewide for the U.S. Senate, I did take polls and like most statewide candidates relied more heavily on electronic advertising to deliver [...] Read more »

The future of the newspaper business model may be very different. Read more »

And the state conspiracy to keep it quiet. Read more »

I found this list of reasons why newspapers are unlikely to innovate and therefore be able to face the challenges of new media in the next century truly fascinating. It reminds me a lot of the institutional inertia and inability to innovate that I’ve seen elsewhere firsthand in the progressive world, and I think this [...] Read more »

Or $10, or whatever you want. No joke. Read more »