Editor & Publisher predicts that the newly-minted term "snailpapers" will probably not catch on, but offers a note saying our little ditty about print newspapers (long may they live!) is worth a listen -- or two! YouTube hits are now 320 and climbing. Shooting for 25,000 hits by end of year. Stay tuned. Do not turn this page!

Sing Out For Print!
(or, alternative title: Singing for his supper...)
http://www.fitzandjen.com/2010/02/sing-out-for-print.html



Danny Bloom offers this little ditty, an ode to the printed newspaper. He calls them “snailpapers,” a neologism we’re betting, um, well, won’t really catch on, but a nice try. Anyway, it’s a clever song that shows Bloom knows his newspaper personalities. Sample lyric:


In Chicago, there’s Steinberg, Neil with a hat,
He’s a serious writer who never falls flat,
Snailpapers help the Windy City un-wind.
My kind of town, it’s a newspaper -- mine.


(Cliff Notes: Steinberg is a Chicago Sun-Times columnist whose books include "Hatless Jack: The President, the Fedora and the Death of the Hat.")

-- MARK FITZGERALD
[Cliff Notes part 2: The blog that blogged this brief item is a breezy, business-oriented blog on the ups and downs of the newspaper industry ...written by E&P's Editor-at-Large Mark Fitzgerald (in Chicago) and Associate Editor Jennifer Saba (in New York). Between them, they have won seven Jesse H. Neal Awards, the top prize for the business press, in the past six years. ]