Nick Bergus Thoughts on what media do, and can do better, and other things

Steak and maggots Gene Weingarten’s Gene Weingarten column mentions Lady Gaga. Call me a grumpy old codger, but I liked the old way better. For one thing, I used to have at least a rudimentary idea of how a newspaper got produced: On deadline, drunks with cigars wrote stories that were edited by constipated but [...]

Earlier this month, the Corridor Business Journal reported that Iowa City was all but video store-less. Mr. Movies and others have closed, and That’s Rentertainment, a local independent shop, was soon to follow suit, leaving us with a just single Blockbuster. This is gets back to the news business, just stick with me. That’s Rentertainment has clearly seen [...]

Playing while sinking Jason Whitlock’s “Whitlock on the Newspaper Industry: Letting ‘Myth’ Albom Preach Was the Equivalent of the ‘band playing while the Titantic took on water‘” on The Big Lead APSE and its myth-building contest bait newspaper leadership to stay stagnate. Presenting Albom an award and giving him a platform to preach was the [...]

The pull of the moon Carmen K. Sisson’s Lost and found in Biloxi That might have been the end of my career, but journalism is the moon to my tide, the lure I can’t quite break. KFC and RCA and YMCA and others In reference to National Public Radio changing its name to NPR Chris [...]

A young man a courtin’ Chuck Peters, quoted in John Kenyon in the Corridor Business Journal Chuck Peters uses the analogy of a young man seeking the affections of an attractive woman when discussing the rather radical changes his media company is undergoing. “It’s like saying, ‘I like that girl over there, I’ll just watch [...]