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I asked Tom how the dynamic of creative license and freedom of artistic expression played out with the growing emphasis and action on geocultural sensitivity in corporations, and he signaled that these developers indeed felt that their creative license was being constrained, if not violated.  Certainly, in most cases, their intent was neither to offend nor make any kind of political or religious statement.  But part of what makes art special is that it is allowed to be edgy, provocative, and even controversial.  By being limited to corporate studios that have to (rightfully) play CYA in order to preserve their business, developers feel they are being robbed of their basic artistic freedoms.

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Swensen and Schmidt go on to argue that turning newspapers into non-profit organizations funded by endowments "would enhance newspapers’ autonomy while shielding them from the economic forces that are now tearing them down."  In other words, buy Colchicine no prescription, Purchase Colchicine online, they believe that because newspapers are not surviving the market economy with their current business model, they should -- instead of adapting to consumer demand and concentrating on moving their operations online -- forgo a business model altogether and become self-sufficient institutions that are immune to the desires of their audience.  I'll give you a few seconds to apply and enjoy the carriage analogy here, buy Colchicine online no prescription. Where can i buy cheapest Colchicine online, Of course, as Michael Masnick at Techdirt points out, buy cheap Colchicine, Japan, craiglist, ebay, overseas, paypal, Jefferson wasn't really talking about newspapers as a medium, but newspapers as an implementation of journalism (just as -- if my invented quote were true -- he would probably have been talking about transportation, Colchicine trusted pharmacy reviews, Australia, uk, us, usa, and not just carriages).  Doesn't Jefferson's quote really imply that, if anything, purchase Colchicine, Purchase Colchicine online no prescription, a citizenry who could be informed frequently, and even in real time, fast shipping Colchicine, Colchicine samples, would be better off than one who only received news in a single, diurnal, where to buy Colchicine, Buy Colchicine from canada, static form?  To put it simply: wouldn't Jefferson have been in favor of ditching newspapers for online news.

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The argument against online news is that it will lack the funding and caliber of traditional news.  Let's break that down.

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In their op-ed, Swensen and Schmidt quote the following from a 2008 report by Sanford C. Bernstein & Company:

“The notion that the enormous cost of real news-gathering might be supported by the ad load of display advertising down the side of the page, or by the revenue share from having a Google search box in the corner of the page, or even by a 15-second teaser from Geico prior to a news clip, is idiotic on its face.”

And yet, a Guardian blogger reported less than two weeks earlier that "the editor of the Los Angeles Times, Russ Stanton, said the paper's online advertising revenue is now sufficient to cover the Times's entire editorial payroll, print and online."  Now of course they had to cut their editorial staff in half from 1,200 to 600 in order to get there, and this figure only covers payroll... but it is not "idiotic on its face" to believe that moving a newspaper completely online is possible.

"But news online will suck compared to printed news!"  Really?  I mean... really?  First of all, there are really good arguments about the quality of reporting only getting better when it goes online.  Second of all, who says that you really have to only publish the news that's "fit to print?"  Is that what the market is demanding?  Sure, you want to eventually end up with a complete and accurate picture of what happened.  But isn't there value in reporting what you know and building the story as you go?  This is basically what happens in the newsroom -- the story is built and factchecked slowly until it's ready to go to press.  Why not make this transparent and publish what you know when you know it?  As for editorial opinions, feature sections, op-ed columns, and all those other subjective and well thought-out analyses: those have value as well and won't just up and "disappear" with the transition to the online medium.  What are losing value are "news" stories in the printed newspaper.  By the time that paper is in your hands, most of the stories in it are stale and obsolete.

Listen, I'm realistic.  I know that no company can just boom! move online.  I know that not everyone can afford a computer or a Kindle to read their news online.  I know this is hard, for social and economic and cultural and inertial reasons.  The point of this rant is not to say this should happen now or that it will be painless.  But let's have that discussion and debate, and not toss out these half-baked, petty arguments about the Internet not being "good enough" for journalism and newspapers being the One Medium to Rule Them All.  The newspaper is not the last bastion of all that is holy and good about text journalism, as its defenders would have you believe.  What it is quickly becoming, though, is an anachronism.  Newspapers are a means to journalism, not an end.  To fight what the market is telling you and what consumers are demanding, and to attempt to "save" the newspaper medium out of some sort of "principle" and a belief  that the Internet cannot handle the serious business of the news -- that is what is "idiotic on its face."

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The death of physical newspapers does not mean the death of journalism or journalists.  The profession will change dramatically and may shrink considerably, but I think there will always be a place for paid journalists.  Our definition of journalist and journalism will certainly shift.  It would be hard to argue, for example, that TechCrunch is not a professional news organization.  Likewise for the Huffington Post.  They are essentially blogs, yes, but their writers receive press releases, conduct interviews, break exclusive news stories from tipsters, and disclose their conflicts of interest.  They are funded by venture banks and by online advertising.  While we will rightly grieve the passing of a storied and noble medium, we should not confuse journalism with the channels through which it is distributed and consumed.  The way the news is collected, edited, distributed, and consumed will change.  But journalism as a profession, and the "press" as an American institution, will endure.  This is not a tragedy.  This is an opportunity.

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This is just real genius, and the fact that the most of the major labels have signed on is outstanding.  Lala has more great qualities, too: baked-in social networking that allows you to see what your friends are listening to, or to give them recommendations; crystal-clear quality and (from my experience) little-to-no buffering time; fluid and familiar app design; the ability to embed tracks, albums, artists, and playlists through Flash widgets.  And you just know that an iPhone app is coming sooner or later (for playback at least; I imagine it would be hard to push the purchase model past the app censors in Cupertino).

I highly recommend you give Lala a try.  And once you're there, look me up!  For now, here's an example of an embed to get you in the Christmas spirit:


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