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

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 [...]

A widdle deer Vicki Boykis, in an interview with Anna Tarkov Q: What is your top complaint about the news media? My general complaints are that the print/tv news media treats the Internet as some disgusting thing under a microscope that it has to handle with kid gloves all while not knowing anything about it [...]

BP’s booboo The Tri-City Herald‘s “The inside scoop: What’s new for newspapers?” But what really got us thinking was Pruitt’s reminder of the newsroom’s unique role in democracy. The internet is great. But it’s a gusher — not unlike the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Once you get it started, there’s just no [...]

A former Catholic porn star Andrew Wallenstein on Twitter Like a porn star crediting catholic school RT @Poynter: Ben Huh says Medill prepared him to run Cheezburger Network http://is.gd/cU6gy

Dinosaurs with no sense of self-preservation Glenn Luther on Twitter Dinosaurs running toward the comet RT @stevebuttry Newspapers pursuing paywalls: Chapter Whatever. http://p2.to/Tcb

Jumping without a parachute Dave Winer’s Find an airplane to jump out of In hindsight, the Times could have and should have been the new distribution system, but they would have had to be nimble to do that, and been willing to accept the feeling of jumping out of a plane with no parachute. They [...]

Swiss Army knife extreme Danny Sanchez’s A Metaphor for News Site Navigation Jesse Sneed/Creative Commons on Flickr