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

If only we could have historic events every day, maybe newspapers wouldn’t be in such trouble. Some very nice A1s ran this morning.
The nicest A1 I saw was from Mr. Obama’s hometown tabloid, the Chicago Sun-Times. Simple. The Des Moines Register’s was simple and effective and I’m a fan of not trying to make the [...]

More on this later, but this is a great example of operating in the so-called “link economy” by recognizing that more can be made from becoming a reliable source of information by linking to stories from others (even your competitors) than by producing your own duplicate version.
First came this:

Then came this:

Yes, that is the Chicago [...]