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

My Covervette Sherman Frederick’s Copyright theft: We’re not taking it anymore It is the protection of that journalism that I want to talk about today. Look at this way. Say I owned a beautiful 1967 Corvette and kept it parked in my front yard. And you, being a Corvette enthusiast, saw my Vette from the [...]

Mercury astronauts Sam Whitmore and Mathew Ingram on Twitter @samwhitmore: iPad: @mathewi criticizes the Mercury astronauts for not reaching the moon http://bit.ly/aP56Vz … it takes time, Mathew. @mathewi: I’m not criticizing them for not reaching the moon, @samwhitmore — I’m saying their spaceship looks like an old Buick :-)

A quarterback who just doesn’t get it Dave Winer to Jay Rosen, 33 minutes into Rebooting the News #43 It’s like in football. … When the quarterback gets the ball, the quarterback always turns back and runs a few yards back before even thinking about passing the ball. And you think, “Why is the quarterback [...]

William Durant and General Motors Tommy Thomason’s Pew Report is good news and bad news for community journalism William Durant didn’t like automobiles. Durant, who was in the carriage business in the 1890s, thought cars were smelly and noisy, not to mention downright dangerous.  But he realized that automobiles, as distasteful as he thought them to [...]

An industrial giant in bankruptcy Jack Shafer’s “How Condé Nast Is Like General Motors,” in Slate Although the privately held Condé Nast isn’t as financially distressed as the bankrupt General Motors, and although the magazine business couldn’t be more unlike the car business, the two distraught companies share woes. Both succeeded in segmenting the market [...]

Raft on fire! Jason Fry’s Reactions to Nieman, Part 2 …the print-centric business model is a burning raft — and when you’re on a burning raft, you have to plan differently. Ford Geir Stene’s Media business revenues are dropping so might your Company’s! The challenges are huge and concern all of us. Rapid changes are [...]

1996 Honda Jim Barnett’s Why NYT Co. might not be as quick to sell the Globe as you might think at Nieman Journalism Lab The Globe does cost a lot more than my Honda to operate. But the really big bucks — the $1.1 billion purchase price — is money long since spent. Just like [...]

Update: This post has grown long enough that new metaphors and similes are going into new posts. There are lots of metaphors being thrown around for the current state of the news industry. On a suggestion from Steve Buttry, I’m collecting as many of them as possible. Add your suggestions in the comments, or @reply [...]