@Bunsy: Sure, you can. But if the person being charged is me - who can take it, repurpose it in my own language, and make it more profitable (the cost of paying for the NYT vs. the cost of reporting the NYT) - the value of the information drops dramatically, as quickly as I can make it my own. And I just don't think you can't protect the value of something like a huge scoop to justify what it costs to get it anymore. You've got to offer something else.
@Bunsy: Because eventually the information makes its way into the public space. In other words, if information has any value at all, that value pretty much disappears the instant it hits the air. The pay wall only works if you can control, in a very narrow way, the limits of the medium (in this case the internet). #peterkaplan
I kind of love the quote about how it takes a single day to decipher whether a reporter is worth his or her weight. That really speaks to an intuitiveness amongst quality journalists, something that perhaps cannot be taught at school but merely refined (or alternately, stunted) by grooming.
And Tina Brown is a lot [many things-er] than all of us, but that does not make her in any way something we should continue thinking about. #peterkaplan
@ampersandparade: True, on both points. But Tina Brown's going to be someone we're going to have to keep thinking about. The question remains: when (or if) Diller will tighten the purse-strings on her operation. #peterkaplan
We may still be waiting for an explanation from the money men, but President Bush isn't. He's sitting down in Dallas atop a mountain of money, watching playoff baseball games without a care in the world. #andrewrosssorkin
I'd like this so much more Foster had you not led with Peter Jennings. In poor taste. Otherwise, I had never heard the "You're with me, leather" story - OMG. I don't eknow who Chris Berman is but I sort of love him even though I'm sure I'd hate him. Also, I'm glad you included Cris Collinsworth but you forgot one crucial detail about him: HE'S A GAY MANELIST!!
True story: A friend of mine went to one of those media conferences/awards things where O'Reilly was a speaker/presenter. Anyways, she says he was trying to fuck anyting with a pulse. My friend passed on the chance, but said he eventually succeeded in persuading one of the women my friend knew into go back to his hotel with him. She later asked her how was the sex and my friend said that the woman told her that O'Reilly liked having dildos and strap-ons used on him. She says the woman passed on using either but they did have regular, vanilla sex.
Since when is O'Reilly an "ass magnet"? A sexual harassment suit with tapes where he talked about hiring a prostitute and offered to scrub a girl's pussy with a falafel doesn't speak to a charming way with the ladies.
You should replace O'Reilly with Bill Maher who is a player who has far more success with women than O'Reilly as well as being a far superior commentator on the news.
@Claire Buoyant: Eh. Foreigners always get more tail. Also, politician, not media. And that list, I mean, you know? But Sarkozy over Berlusconi any day.
@Foster Kamer: But Silvio is a mogul first. He owns almost half the media in Italy. I get the impression that the politician gig is rather incidental. It's like if Rupert Murdoch ran for president.
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That still makes me so happy. No comment on the rest of this, but, well, thanks for the links!
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You should replace O'Reilly with Bill Maher who is a player who has far more success with women than O'Reilly as well as being a far superior commentator on the news.
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Since he had his ass magnetized. It makes the dildos go in easier.
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