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

Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon, two long-time newspaper men with the Washington Post, heading into an ad break for their ESPN program, Pardon the Interruption, on Monday, May 23, 2011 [mp3]: Your browser is too crappy to support the audio element. TK: Here’s whats over: boxing and newspapers. MW: Yeah. Maybe not in that order. TK: And horse racing. [...]

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 [...]