[LINK] Newspapers online
David Goldstein
wavey_one at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 30 16:05:20 AEDT 2010
Since when is a metric required for discussion on Link? With the exception of Roger and Tom, there's very little evidence-based discussion here.
----- Original Message ----
> From: Kim Holburn <kim at holburn.net>
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> Sent: Tue, 30 March, 2010 3:50:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Newspapers online
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On 2010/Mar/30, at 2:50 PM, David Goldstein wrote:
> Quality
> newspapers - UK (Daily Telegraph, Times, Guardian,
> Independent,
> FT), US (New York Times, Washington Post, WSJ),
> Australia
> (Australian), Germany (Die Zeit, Frankfurter Zeitung),
> France (Le
> Monde)... to begin. In the UK and Australia, well, that's
> it...
> the other countries there are other newspapers one could add.
I didn't
> ask what newspapers you consider quality papers, I asked what
metric
> do you use?
Metric: A metric is a measure for quantitatively
> assessing,
controlling or selecting a person, process, event, or
> institution,
along with the procedures to carry out measurements and
> the procedures
for the interpretation of the assessment in the light
> of previous or
comparable assessments.
In other words how would
> you measure this "quality"? Is there an
objective way of
> measuring this or is it just your opinion?
> You say there are reasons
> there are no new newspapers,
yep.
> but then you say news
> outlets can't start because of incumbents.
yep - one of the
> reasons.
> You say online is the way to go it seems.
I don't
> think I actually said that and it's not necessarily true
either.
> For instance there is the ..... Kindle!
> There's nothing to stop
> anyone starting a blog for news in Adelaide.
Lots of them.
>
> You seem to think they are good enough.
Sturgeon's Law still applies -
> 90% are crud.
> And of course Chinese newspapers will be
> cheaper.
???
Because Chinese papers aren't as good quality?
> Gets back to your
metric.
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