Two years ago Taylor and I wrote a piece for the Columbia Journalism Review (which they opted not to publish) critical of Kuttner and the CJR’s faith in the print-hybrid model for media. After having it sit on our hard drives all this time we are putting it up for reading and commenting. It is, [...]
Entries from March 2009
Print Media: Nostalgia is not a growth model (or, on why being online is better than than paper)
Canada’s Foreign Policy: Canadians’… you are on your own
Numerous commentator have asked why Canadians don’t seem to care about Foreign Policy. Well, maybe it is because our foreign policy so rarely cares about them. Consider the plight of Abousfian Abdelrazi, the Sudanese-born Canadian whose name is stuck on the 1267 UN no-flight list. And let’s be clear, both Canadian and Sudanese authorities have [...]
Water Footprint and the bottled water debate
As many of you know, I’m not a huge fan of campaigns to ban bottled water for reasons I’ve outlined here and here (the short version is, bottled water is a healthier choice than coke or even OJ, so why no ban those?). Those who wish to ban bottled water usually fall into two camps. [...]
Background on Missing the Link
Two years ago the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) hosted a panel (audio available here) with Steven Rattner, Jim Brady, Amanda Bennett, Jill Abramson, and Robert Kuttner (with Nicholas Lemann moderating). The purpose was to discuss an article the CJR had commissioned Robert Kuttner’s to write on the future of print media where he essentially argued [...]
Newspapers’ decline is a sign of democracy’s health, not a symptom of its death
Two years ago Taylor and I wrote a piece for the Columbia Journalism Review (which they opted not to publish) critical of Kuttner and the CJR’s faith in the print-hybrid model for media. After having it sit on our hard drives all this time we are putting it up for download (back story on my [...]
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