I see by the snailpapers that the Newspaper Death Watch blog webbed by Paul Gillis ran a brief item the other day about why some people are calling print newspapaers "snailpapers" and how a good healthy sense of humour about all this might even help newspaper, er, snailpaper, executives roll with the punches better.....
(hat tip to Newspaper Death Watch): SCROLL DOWN TO SEE ITEM BELOW:
NY Times Swallows Paywall Pill
By paul gillin | January 22, 2010 - - Posted in Advertising, Best/Worst, Business News, BusinessModel, Newspapers, OnlineMedia, Paywalls, Snailpapers
***** Dan Bloom has come up with a new word for newspapers. He calls them “snailpapers.” [But] the longtime newspaperman insists this is a term of endearment, not derision. He thinks maybe if newspapers poked more fun at themselves instead of getting all righteously indignant about new media, they would generate more sympathy. More on his blog at
http://zippy1300.blogspot.com/
[Dan calls them snailpapers because they arrive at our doorsteps in the morning with news that is already 12 hours late. But he uses the term as a term of endearment, let's be clear about that. Dan loves snailpapers and hopes they never disappear. While he can live with having to SCREEN text on screens, and actually spends half his waking hours online, he much prefers reading newspapers the way they were meant to be read, which is on paper, real paper, smelly and inky and foldable and clippable and tear-outable and underline-able and highlightable and re-read again at night-able and then wrap the fish with them on Saturday.... KIDDING!.....CLICHE!....... but yes, LONG LIVE SNAILPAPERS! It will be a sad day indeed when the human race is down to getting their news on pixelated computer or Kindle or iTablet screens! THAT is not reading, that is screening. YUCK!
Newspaper Death Watch: chronicling the death, strike that, DECLINE, of newspapers and the rebirth of journalism (edited by this blog)
LINK:
http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/ny-times-swallows-paywall-pill.html
http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/
NY Times Swallows Paywall Pill
By paul gillin | January 22, 2010 - - Posted in Advertising, Best/Worst, Business News, BusinessModel, Newspapers, OnlineMedia, Paywalls, Snailpapers
***** Dan Bloom has come up with a new word for newspapers. He calls them “snailpapers.” [But] the longtime newspaperman insists this is a term of endearment, not derision. He thinks maybe if newspapers poked more fun at themselves instead of getting all righteously indignant about new media, they would generate more sympathy. More on his blog at
http://zippy1300.blogspot.com/
[Dan calls them snailpapers because they arrive at our doorsteps in the morning with news that is already 12 hours late. But he uses the term as a term of endearment, let's be clear about that. Dan loves snailpapers and hopes they never disappear. While he can live with having to SCREEN text on screens, and actually spends half his waking hours online, he much prefers reading newspapers the way they were meant to be read, which is on paper, real paper, smelly and inky and foldable and clippable and tear-outable and underline-able and highlightable and re-read again at night-able and then wrap the fish with them on Saturday.... KIDDING!.....CLICHE!....... but yes, LONG LIVE SNAILPAPERS! It will be a sad day indeed when the human race is down to getting their news on pixelated computer or Kindle or iTablet screens! THAT is not reading, that is screening. YUCK!
Newspaper Death Watch: chronicling the death, strike that, DECLINE, of newspapers and the rebirth of journalism (edited by this blog)
LINK:
http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/ny-times-swallows-paywall-pill.html
http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/
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