Newsroom heeds advice of its young, tech-savvy staff
Publisher gives up company SUV to save one reporter’s job
Chicago paper adds 30 new positions, expands coverage area
Study shows facts becoming more popular than opinion
Anonymous online commenters turn off caps lock
Twitter produces revenue
CEO sends T-800 back to 1960 to destroy ARPANET, Vint Cerf
Google decides to just give some of its damn extra money to newspapers already
Blogger actually appreciates MSM source material
Gary Pruitt informed the Rolling Stones aren’t cool any more
Local paper Web site tries new things
Decent paying job at established media company found on Craigslist
Editors respond to inquiry letter with haste and courtesy
Publisher’s predictions of future prosperity proven to be accurate
Sam Zell returned to Baldur’s Gate universe
Zell
Journalist quits drinking
J school education provides huge return on investment
Reader calls newspaper with rational, reasoned disagreement over story
Sheriff’s Office press person likes to be helpful, knowledgeable
Joe Grimm applauded for sound career advice
Yes yes, and there’s plenty more thinly veiled anger to be had. Got others?
Here’s Tribune’s actual April Fool’s Day press release:
Tribune to Unveil Revolutionary Communications Tool
Alternative Info Super-Highway Created, May Render Internet Obsolete By 2010
Content Delivered to the End-User More Directly Than Ever Before
CHICAGO, April 1 /PRNewswire/ — Tribune Company today announced detailed plans to introduce a high-power, low-cost communications device designed to make all media, including the Internet, obsolete by next year. The device, tentatively being marketed as “The Accelerator(TM),” uses patent-pending nano-technology to aggregate the sum of all human knowledge–everything from where you put your keys last night to the genetic sequence of field mice DNA–and deliver what you want, when you want, directly into your brain. A prototype of the device and a description of its features can be found on the company website at www.tribune.com.
“Forget cloud computing, this is vapor computing,” said Randy Michaels, Tribune’s chief operating officer. “Traditional media companies have been working for years to harness the so-called power of the Internet–we decided that rather than compete, we’d just make it obsolete.”
It might be funny, if a bunch of my friends didn’t have jobs hanging in the balance of the future of that company. Less jokey , more fixy Sam.
Mr. White:
journalism as a profession. As far as I’m concerned, it’s a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity. If this is what you’re trying to get The Sun away from, then I think I’d like to work for you.
Inverted Soapbox 