[LINK] Newspapers online

[Kim Holburn]

Nice.  Obviously people have been thinking about this.  Has anyone  
done the work to apply it, I wonder?

On 2010/Mar/31, at 11:48 AM, Sylvano wrote:

>
> A paper, Quantifying Newspaper Quality: "I Know It When I See It"  
> analyses
> criteria and factors regarding quality newspapers. Different sets of
> criteria are reviewed and they some of their own research added into  
> the
> mix as well. It is framed within the challenge of the cost vs quality
> nexus and profitability in the face of disruptive technologies.
>
> http://www.unc.edu/~pmeyer/Quality_Project/quantifying_newspaper_quality.pdf
>
> On Wed, March 31, 2010 10:28 am, David Goldstein wrote:
>> Given you've been making outlandish statements with no metrics  
>> applied
>> through all this discussion, I fail to see why I should have to  
>> justify
>> myself with providing metrics on this one. Not one of your "claims"  
>> has
>> any basis. In fact, your "claims" are mostly, if not totally,  
>> prejudiced
>> garbage.
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>>> From: Kim Holburn <kim at holburn.net>
>>> To: Link list <link at anu.edu.au>
>>> Sent: Tue, 30 March, 2010 11:04:46 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [LINK] Newspapers online
>>>
>>>
>> On 2010/Mar/30, at 4:05 PM, David Goldstein wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Good misdirection and ad hominem riposte.  So basically your
>>> list of
>> "quality" newspapers is based on your gut feeling, not any
>>> actual
>> measurement of anything?  Anybody could make up a list and
>>> why would
>> it be any more or less valid than yours?
>>
>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>>> From: Kim Holburn <> ymailto="mailto:kim at holburn.net"
>>> href="mailto:kim at holburn.net">kim at holburn.net>
>>>> To: Link list
>>> <> href="mailto:link at anu.edu.au">link at anu.edu.au>
>>>> Sent: Tue, 30
>>> March, 2010 3:50:06 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [LINK] Newspapers
>>> online
>>>>
>>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>
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