TIME turns its attention to media matters in a couple of articles this week. First, that paragon of journalistic integrity, ?The Moment,? discusses the demise of the hard-copy version of a 146-year-old Seattle newspaper.
Without sources, of course, David Von Drehle muses on the challenges print media outlets face in comparison with their broadcast and online counterparts:
A paper, by contrast, has presses and trucks and lifestyle reporters; comic strips, critics and recipes; the DIY column, beat writers, the sports pages, an investigative team, the statehouse bureau, a squad of chin strokers on the editorial board and that older fellow who writes a “light” column that hasn’t been funny for years. That’s a lot of overhead.
Later, a profile of Arianna Huffington discusses the impact of her liberal Huffington Post on other media;
[S]ome people believe this model may fundamentally change the news business. When the Seattle Post-Intelligencer became the first large daily newspaper to stop printing and move entirely to the Web, on March 18, the new site was structured uncannily like HuffPo, its original content reduced and jostling for space with guest blogs, wire stories and links to other news sites.
You?d have a hard time finding many issues on which John Hood and Arianna Huffington agree, but the Huffington Post does offer a good example of the type of media Hood has projected for the future.
