Leading and Bleeding

Global warming doesn't bleed much, nor do mathematics and science text books or complicated $3 billion budgets.....you get the point. What do people really want to read, hear and see and what do media outlets feed them to read, hear and see?

Two points:
1. CBS has the guts to put a rant on its website against local television coverage.
2. I found this guy at blogspot - a former city editor turned techno-capitalist who is worth reading.

The whale is a worthy nemesis

There is a place for blogs in the preservation of democracy, just like there was a place for the penny press. A healthy 4th estate doesn't have to mean the rising circulation of a few. A broader and deeper vision is beneficial to everyone: Drudge, theblognation, CBS, Sulzberger......

Still, some things make you wonder about eating our own......

The Seattle Times and Seattle P-I in a death grip.

The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philly Daily News begging for someone, anyone?, to buy them.

Dean Singleton grabbing the St. Paul Pioneer Press -- buying his way into another JOA marriage, this time with the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

The NYTimes and Washington Post at war over the International Herald-Tribune rather than enterprise journalism.

Can we be serious?

First of all, as I sow a few digital oats, a word about the title of this blog -- Mobydicknews. We are on a quest for elusive prey. The white whale that lurks on these pages is hunting us as much as we will hunt it.

This is all to say, Mobydicknews is journalistic nirvana.

Call me editor. Let's swim.

Serious Times Call for Serious News

TV viewers want more national and international news, less crime and entertainment, researcher says:

Entering the digital universe