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

These three tweets from Jay Rosen sum up the whole Keith Olbermann thing and why I don’t really care about it. MSNBC suspends Olbermann indefinitely for donating $ to Democratic candidates http://jr.ly/5qn7 NBC rules clearly say you cannot do that. November 5, 2010 12:41 pm via webReplyRetweetFavorite @jayrosen_nyu Jay Rosen As many have told me, [...]

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 [...]

Selling snowmen to Eskimos Information Architects‘ “The Value of Information” Information on the Internet is as common as snow in the arctic. You can’t expect Eskimos to buy a snowman. Jay Rosen on Twitter Journalist: hey, I made a snowman. Inuit: nice! Journalist: it took me all day. Inuit: what’s your point? Journalist: that’ll be [...]

A Married Couple Jay Rosen, on Twitter Maybe AP and its members are like a married couple afraid to call it quits. So the tension comes out at scrapers, linkers and freeloaders.

A Migrating Tribe Jay Rosen’s Migration Point for the Press Tribe And like reluctant migrants everywhere, the people in the news tribe have to decide what to take with them, when to leave, where to land. They have to figure out what is essential to their way of life, and which parts were well adapted [...]

You can read the premise behind this in the orginal news metaphor post, which was linked to by Jim Romenesko, Jay Rosen and The New York Times‘ David Carr, among others. That post has grown unmanageably large so I’ve created a category for it. You can still suggest metaphors via e-mail, Twitter, Publish2 (tagged “newsmetaphors”) [...]

Combing through my RSS feeds earlier this week, I came across a post from Rob Curley looking for interns. I posted a link on Twitter, which then goes to FriendFeed and Facebook (which, sadly, still makes it impossible to find permalinks), since the Las Vegas Sun is doing really cool things and thought my students [...]

In Monday’s Corridor Business Journal is the first of what we plan to be a monthly media column that I will write with John Goodlove. In this installment, we wrote about the recent announcement that The Gazette is restructuring its newsroom, and the following staff uneasiness. Mr. Goodlove is a grizzled newspaper veteran while I’m [...]