Nick Bergus » Bill Keller http://nbergus.com Thoughts on what media do, and can do better, and other things Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:54:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Metaphors: Hospice http://nbergus.com/2009/08/metaphors-hospice/ http://nbergus.com/2009/08/metaphors-hospice/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:06:34 +0000 Nick Bergus http://nbergus.com/?p=553 A Hospice
Bill Keller, quoted in Matthew Flamm’s Pay up or the newspaper gets it

It’s kind of like being a motivational speaker in a hospice. But I do think that newspapers are going to weather this time and come out of it healthy.

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Bill Keller, The New York Times‘ executive editor, and Jason Jones in The Daily Show‘s “End Times”

Keller: It’s always been one of the higher asperations in the business to work for The New York Times. Nowadays, we’re a little bit like the last ship afloat. So we have all these lifeboats floating around underneath us and people dying to clamber on board.

Jones: Your lifeboat is made of paper.

Jones: You guys are like a walking Colonial Williamsburg

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