Comments on: Billionaire techie starts NYT newspaper death watch

By: J. Rowsey

J. Rowsey — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:19:58 +0000

This is a very interesting post. I tend to agree with Jill that I like the idea of physically holding a newspaper in my hand or for that matter a book. I’ve not been able to get into the whole e-book thing yet. Having said that, I did cancel my subscription to the Columbus Dispatch, but that had more to do with the lack of interesting journalism going on in that paper.

By: Jill Miller Zimon

Jill Miller Zimon — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:15:17 +0000

Jeff, I think that’s very fair. I would agree with that. BUT…I do like the idea of a newspaper as a physical thing I take with me to read while I sit in my car waiting for my kid to come out of school or whatever. So, not surprisingly, I’m undecided. lol

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By: Jeff Hess

Jeff Hess — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:12:47 +0000

Shabbat shalom Jill,

Yep. I’m still in the same place I was in 1981 when I took my first class on VideoText (that’s what we called the news on the Internet back in the stone age).

It’s all about the delivery system. We don’t use pony express riders anymore to move the mail. Why the feck do we continue to believe that using paper and ink (or time-bound broadcast systems) to move the news makes any sense?

We need ever good reporter and editor that the New York Times has. What we don’t need is the printing press.

B’shalom,

Jeff