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Jesse Brown Takes a Jab at Print Newspapers

Posted by Jerrold Litwinenko / February 20, 2010

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TVO's Jesse Brown took a playful but mostly sincere jab at print newspapers and those advocating for their salvation - by picking apart a Toronto Star on the most recent Search Engine video podcast.

Brown picks on the print newspaper's woes - including excessive and intrusive advertising, news story lag, and use of wire service in place of original journalism. The thing is, I'm not all that convinced that web-based journalism isn't prone to the same trends and annoyances.

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Jarek / February 20, 2010 at 06:13 pm
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At least the only trojans that come with print newspapers are the fun kind.
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Tksfjgs / February 20, 2010 at 06:31 pm
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I cant believe my tax dollars are going to pay the salary of this hipster twit. Id rather burn it; at least i can keep warm.
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SeamusDDog / February 20, 2010 at 06:41 pm
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Oh snap. I came to post that, and was already too late!!
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Dialog / February 20, 2010 at 06:46 pm
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Mr. Brown needs to choose more flattering clothing for his video appearances
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cocoa replying to a comment from Jarek / February 20, 2010 at 06:48 pm
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Ha.

Also, wire services, old new york times articles, cartoons...the internet's good for getting all that right away, but what if you don't need it right away?

I do wish I had an adblocker for the newspapers though.
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Matt Demers replying to a comment from Tksfjgs / February 20, 2010 at 07:04 pm
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Hipsters? On BlogTO? Never!
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Randy / February 20, 2010 at 07:27 pm
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Well, The Toronto Star's decline is their own bloody fault for outsourcing copy editing to India!
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Matthew / February 20, 2010 at 08:09 pm
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Actually, the Star reversed the copy-editing decision. It'll still be done in-house, in Toronto.

But c'mon, a web 2.0 guy upset with abuse of wire copy? A valid point, but the web is all about linking and using other sources. And a shitload of web-based news is just newspaper and TV stories, and wire stuff. What a twit. Newspapers need to get with the program (the Star more than most) but they still provide the most in-depth reporting there is.
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Geoff / February 20, 2010 at 11:29 pm
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Can we get TVO's Jesse Brown to comment on the adverting that's on the TVO channel? Or as TVO calls them 10- to 15-sec. corporate bumpers, just leave the calls to action out and no sales pitch.
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drunknow / February 21, 2010 at 12:00 pm
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Who the fuck watches TVO?

What a waste.
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scott / February 21, 2010 at 10:31 pm
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i don't really see his point...there is a lot of crap in newspapers. they should have some old smartass come on and dis the interweb because there is also a lot of crap on it. save your hack comedy for monday night at the firkin. TVO, really? i guess this passes for comedy at a nerd channel.
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cocoa / February 22, 2010 at 05:09 am
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If only newspapers could rely on guaranteed money, perhaps from the government, like a certain local TV channel...
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Gabe / February 23, 2010 at 08:28 am
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TVO Goes Public for fundraising campaign

http://www.marketingmag.ca/english/news/media/article.jsp?content=20100222_171554_10648
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