A picture from 1962.
New Yorkers eager for news of the Cuban crisis line up to buy newspapers.
A time when newspapers were breaking-news media.
Imagine this crisis today with Google Maps, CNN or bloggers!
Last week, Time Warner Chairman-CEO Richard D. Parsons, who told a media conference audience in London:
“I’m going to say something I shouldn’t say.
I worry about CNN more now than I do about CNN.com.”
Well…
Let me say in the same way that:
I worry about The New York Times more now than I do about nytimes.com
I worry about The Guardian more now than I do about guardia.co.uk
I worry about El Pais more now than I do about elpais.es
I worry about The Asahi Shimbun more now than I do about asahi.com
I worry about USA Today more now than I do about usatoday.com
I worry about La Repubblica more now than I do about repubblica.it
I worry about The Wall Street Journal more now than I do about online.wsj.com
I worry about Clarin more now than I do about clarin.com
I worry about Die Welt more now than I do about welt.de
I worry about El Mundo more now than I do about elmundo.es
I worry about The Sidney Morning Herald more now than I do about smh.com.au
I worry about Reforma more now than I do about reforma.com
I worry about the Financial Times more now than I do about ft.com
I worry about O Globo more now than I do about oglobo.globo.com
I worry about Le Figaro more now than I do about lefigaro.fr
I worry about El Mercurio more now than I do about emol.com
I worry about Il Corriere della Sera more now than I do about corriere.it
I worry about El Tiempo more now than I do about eltiempo.com
I worry about the Dagens Nyheter more now than I do about dn.se
I worry about the South China Morning Post more now than I do about scmp.com
I worry about Zero Hora more now than I do about clicrbs.com.br
I worry about the Kleine Zeitung more now than I do about kleinezeitung.at
I worry about The Globe and Mail more now than I do about theglobeandmail.com
I worry about El Nuevo Dia more now than I do about endi.com
I worry about Argumenti i Fakti more now than I do about aif.ru
I worry about Helsingin Sanomat more now than I do about hs.fi
I worry about Segodnya more now than I do about segodnya.au
I worry about 24 Heures more now than I do about 24heures.ch
I worry about Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung more now than I do about faz.net
I worry about Gazeta Wyborcza more now than I do about gazetawyborcza.pl
David Leonhardt writes a good review about “Truth, Fiction and Lou Dobbs” today in The New York Times.
An excellent piece that ends with these strong words against this TV xenophobe and racist:
The most common complaint about him, at least from other journalists, is that his program combines factual reporting with editorializing.
But I think this misses the point.
Americans, as a rule, are smart enough to handle a program that mixes opinion and facts.
The problem with Mr. Dobbs is that he mixes opinion and untruths.
He is the heir to the nativist tradition that has long used fiction and conspiracy theories as a weapon against the Irish, the Italians, the Chinese, the Jews and, now, the Mexicans.
There is no denying that this country’s immigration system is broken.
But it defies belief — and a whole lot of economic research — to suggest that the problems of the middle class stem from illegal immigrants.
Those immigrants, remember, are largely non-English speakers without a high school diploma.
They have probably hurt the wages of native-born high school dropouts and made everyone else better off.
More to the point, if Mr. Dobbs’s arguments were really so good, don’t you think he would be able to stick to the facts?
And if CNN were serious about being “the most trusted name in news,” as it claims to be, don’t you think it would be big enough to issue an actual correction?
Good point!
(Thanks to Gabriel Sama in San Antonio, Texas)
The New Yorker has an excellent profile of Lou Dobbs, the CNN actor that is paid about six million dollars a year for his TV work and a weekly column that he writes for CNN.com.
Kenn Auletta does a good job and forces Dobbs to defend his activist role.
Lou Dobbs is a programn that I don´t watch anymore.
He makes me sick.
Period.
