If they really think they can stop the Obama campaign from posting this, they really need to look up “fair use.”
I honestly doubt they actually think they have a legal case here (and YouTube needs to get a backbone and stop with the ban first, questions later BS). I suspect they’re making noise just to make clear that they’re not the media wing of the Obama campaign. Those timid bastards.
“Valerie Plame,” the first track on the first volume, is from — to quote the press release — “the point-of-view of one of Plame’s inside contacts upon discovering her true identity, the song is an amorous tribute to the onetime CIA operative.”
The New York Sun printed its final edition today.
I agree with Anthony Weiner:
Update: Hmm, maybe not. A source in the newsroom says they don’t know whether or not they’ll be publishing tomorrow.
This has stopped being funny and started to be really disheartening and frightening.
I wrote last week that I thought the next phase of media combat would be over who can do the most effective mix of linking aggregation and reporting. Big aggregators like us at TPM and Huffington Post are expanding our reporting staffs at a quick pace, and newspapers are gradually waking up to the need to pull together the best of the web, not just the best of their own newsroom.
This week, washingtonpost.com is launching Political Browser, a link blog to aggregate the day’s news. It’s an important step forward for them, a tacit acknowledgment that their participation in the linking economy has been weak and they’ve lost audience as a result.
The site, I should note, is produced by a former TPM intern. So far it looks like an extended version of Slate’s “Today’s Papers” mixed with a delicious feed. Nothing much to crow about, but they’ll likely have a steep learning curve and mix up the formatting as they get a sense of the medium. I’ll be curious to watch to see if they can innovate within the Post’s bureaucracy at the pace necessary to catch up to where other online publications are.
Either way, the battle has been joined.
Get to work, or else.
Welcome to the new site.
This is the fourth iteration of my personal blog, but the first hosted at Andrewgolis.com. The design is actually a throwback to the second iteration of the site, hosted at blogspot back in 2006. My hope is that it’s clean and simple and readable. I’m sure I’ll be tweaking as I go, but I love it out of the box too.
Everything you read at my old wordpress site – new media analysis, political musings, and youtube videos – will be here. Enjoy.
