Comments on: Depressing News

By: Brick › We’ve Met the Enemy. So What?

Brick › We’ve Met the Enemy. So What? — Sat, 30 May 2009 16:06:39 +0000

[...] will be different and stay that way, and fewer of them, and stay that way. Unless there’s a calamity. By definition calamities are very [...]

By: A study in contradictions « Brulog

A study in contradictions « Brulog — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:06:13 +0000

[...] what’s killing newspapers is more akin to problems my good friend Ben Pollock points out in “Depressing news” on his blog, Brick. And Suzy has linked to a Washington Post column, a fantasy about the last two [...]

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:34:03 +0000

from Kevin, via Facebook:
“Good points all. I remember sitting in your living room, the three of us, talking about this very subject. News is one of those necessary things in life… we have this need to know what’s going on across town or across the world. It doesn’t matter most times if the news is good or bad, we just need to know. I certainly hope that the newspaper is saved before we realize that we miss it and need it when it’s gone. Reading the Sunday comics in the “throne room” just isn’t the same on the laptop.”