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 [...]

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 [...]