So! Hillary Clinton won yesterday! That was…unexpected. In other follow-up from the last post, there’s a reaction op-ed in the Post about Allen’s “women are stupid” column from the weekend. Also, Allen humorlessly defended her article to the Internet, using the time-tested “I was just joking, but I meant it,” defense.
Anyway, to more important things:
Do you read the World Editors Forum’s Editors Weblog? If not, you should. It’s wonderful.
Except I’m pretty sure they misused the phrase “begs the question” yesterday. Things like that make me physically sick.
Other things they’ve been covering lately include the breaking of the media embargo on Prince Harry’s time in Afghanistan
Meanwhile, two-thirds of Americans view journalism as “out of touch,” but 9 in 10 people in Ireland read a daily newspaper.
Also, the weblog is running a series of interviews with editors from around the world, discussing the future of journalism. One of the questions reprises something I’ve talked about before:
“At this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, a panel of futurists claimed that print newspapers wouldn’t exist by 2014. To what extent do you agree with this?”
“Statements that broad are bound to be wrong,” says WashingtonPost.com’s executive editor Jim Brady. Ed Greenspon of Canada’s Globe & Mail agrees with it “not a whole lot,” and Azu Ishiekwene or the Nigerian newspaper Punch also doesn’t agree.
The weekly series has about 14 more people to interview, so I’m looking forward to those.
But the best thing about the Editors Weblog is that it pointed out to me (again) that the Washington Post is redesigning its website! Other than Usher’s new album, this is what I’m most looking forward to this year.
Hrmm, I may have revealed too much.
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