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    Archives: August 7, 2013

    Justin EllisAugust 7, 2013
    Summer Reading 2013: “Goodbye Gutenberg: The Newspaper Revolution of the 1980s” by Anthony Smith (1980)
    “What will happen to libel laws, codes of journalistic conduct, contempt rules, and copyright protection in a medium that through its sheer profusion of material is unpoliceable, as ungovernable technically as the telephone conversations of an entire society?”
    Linda KinstlerAugust 7, 2013
    Summer Reading 2013: “Of the Press, By the Press, For the Press, and Others, Too” by Laura Longley Babb (1974)
    “For when the press is out of favor, people get to talking about doing something about it; at about that time, it seems to me, the press is well advised to start thinking in very serious ways of doing something of its own in the way of policing and examining and criticizing itself.”
    Tim CarmodyAugust 7, 2013
    Citizen Bezos: Amazon’s founder is looking for a legacy
    The Washington Post offers Bezos the chance to reinvent a newspaper during turbulent times, and in the process leave something to his family beyond Amazon.
    Justin EllisAugust 7, 2013
    Summer Reading 2013: “Media Power: Who is Shaping Your Picture of the World” by Robert Stein (1972)
    “Among the findings was that the combination of a Kennedy scandal and a no-hit game by a local pitcher would help circulation.”
    Justin EllisAugust 7, 2013
    Summer Reading 2013: “The Information Machines: Their Impact on Men and the Media” by Ben H. Bagdikian (1971)
    “The most innocent view of the economics of news is that the consumer pays his daily dime for his paper and gets broadcast news free. That is not true, of course.”
    Justin EllisAugust 7, 2013
    Summer Reading 2013: “Due To Circumstances Beyond Our Control” by Fred Friendly (1967)
    “Independent specialists in the field of sampling are convinced that a television and radio industry [reliant on Nielsen ratings]…is in the position of gauging space-age tolerances with the kind of dip stick used to measure the amount of gas in a Model T.”
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