Quotable: January 2007 Archives

What readers really want to read

By Jack D. Lail on January 20, 2007 5:14 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

One of these days journalists are going to find out what people actually want to read. And that should scare the hell out of them.

-- from a Dan Gillmor post

By Jack D. Lail on January 14, 2007 9:16 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

A superb line about the newspaper environment today ...

The spin on newspapers is ... "A cycle of irrational negativity about their prospects."

By Jack D. Lail on January 10, 2007 8:47 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

"He's probably the leading expert in buying businesses he knows nothing about."

-- an unnamed aide to an unnamed billionaire as quoted by Michael Wolff in Vanity Fair.

By Jack D. Lail on January 6, 2007 9:44 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Web ad economy:

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