Newspapers hope to appeal with "individuated" news

The Washington Times ^ | 6/25/09 | Jennifer Harper

[lakeprincess]

Newspapers are fighting back against predictions that the printed word is dead.

"Individuated news" has arrived.

[unkus]

Screw you, print media. Ben Franklin is sick at heart tonight.

[unkus]

Screw you, print media. Ben Franklin is sick at heart tonight.

[bronxville]

They did a poll recently and the majority of the media are secular humanists aka atheists. This is demonstrated on their reporting and their lack of buyers is because they’re out of step with the rest of us nonelitists. They’ve changed their name from commie, to marxist, to progressives over the years and now they think it’ll work for their trash newspapers. They can call it whatever they want but it still stinks and won’t sell.

[max americana]

> With an array of Internet-driven technologies, consumers can now choose their own mix of news stories, to be delivered to computer screen, palm device or even home printer, complete with discount coupons for local merchants. <

Except for the coupons, FR and Drudge provides the news.

[SanFranDan]

And ACORN changed their name too. But, like papers, not their spots.

[presently no screen name]

can now choose their own mix of news stories

Exactly! The propaganda rags have lost control and they can't handle it.

One more time - FR provides the news.

[max americana]

Preach it brother!

[count-your-change]

“”There's a trust factor involved. People still trust newspapers; they still rely on their credibility and news value. So in that sense, newspapers are still in the driver's seat,” Mr. Vandevanter said.”

And you can still buy a Coke for a nickle and gasoline will soon be $.23 a gallon.

[WKUHilltopper]

Cripes...is it not enough they make up the news, but now they have to make up new words—that don’t exist??

[Corinthian Warrior]

Is this a system of syndication where you basically subscribe to get stories by email?

[cynwoody]

Individuated news?

Move along, folks. Nothing to see here.

Google has been on the job since about 1998. And there was Alta-Vista before that.

And somewhere in that same timeline there was that ridiculous Wired cover story about push. Sorry. The internet is all about pull (as in search) and not about push (as in main stream media)!

From Wired 5.07 (Mar 1997):

Remember the browser war between Netscape and Microsoft? Well forget it. The Web browser itself is about to croak. And good riddance. In its place ... broader and deeper new interfaces for electronic media are being born. BackWeb and PointCast, propelled by hot young Silicon Valley start-ups. Constellation and Active Desktop, spawned in the engineering labs of the browser kings. And from the content companies, prototypes powered by underlying new technologies - Castanet, ActiveX, and Java.

Drivel.