Comments on: Newspapers are too local!!!!!!!!! http://www.whapwhap.com/2008/04/newspapers-are-too-local/ How newspapers are using technology and conservative politics to destroy themselves Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:27:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: admin http://www.whapwhap.com/2008/04/newspapers-are-too-local/#comment-3 admin Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:10:36 +0000 http://www.whapwhap.com/?p=22#comment-3 p.s.: "Who said that consolidation would lead to ignoring of local news? Not me, sir." That's a quote from the aforementioned Mr. Pearlstein, defending his column in which he called on papers to replace local news with global news. So I guess my post is wrong. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/04/15/DI2008041501442.html rel="nofollow">Read more of Mr. Pearlstein's spin-doctoring in this item from the Post website</a>, in which he also talks about how newspaper websites are really newspapers. Oh, doctor, is my head spinning. So let's see ... if I started a newspaper based on this website, I guess that newspaper would really be a website ... p.s.: “Who said that consolidation would lead to ignoring of local news? Not me, sir.” That’s a quote from the aforementioned Mr. Pearlstein, defending his column in which he called on papers to replace local news with global news.

So I guess my post is wrong. Read more of Mr. Pearlstein’s spin-doctoring in this item from the Post website, in which he also talks about how newspaper websites are really newspapers. Oh, doctor, is my head spinning.

So let’s see … if I started a newspaper based on this website, I guess that newspaper would really be a website …

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