In a culture that valued cloistered domesticity, a foot the shape and size of a lotus bud was the ticket to a more important kind of mobility. —”Brutal Beauty” by Deanna Isaacs
Moving into a post-NYT world is not the same as post-literate; it’s hyper-literate.
Media moguls fret over how to make money from such service to the public. That business model hasn’t yet emerged to the satisfaction of the greed that was rampant in the industry for generations. But smaller newspapers can be, and are, successful financially, both in print and on the Web.
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What we may be seeing overall is a diminishing of the incentives for large corporations to buy up as many media markets as possible. That business model is definitely a dinosaur, as Sam Zell has recognized, being its first major victim.
If the Riviera, Park West, or Vic is any indication of how Jam will be handling the restoration of the Uptown Theater, I would say that I would rather Live Nation or C3 have won the bid. At this point, the restoration of this theater is more important to those of us in Uptown than the health of the local music scene.
First, I did not feel like I was on the “hot seat” from the start in this year’s voting process. Fact: There was little publicity nationally.
The Reader stated that Wayne Besen has “been on Dobson watch for ten years.” If so, where was he in April when the NRHOF announced its nominations online? And nationally voting was going on since May 1.
