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...Texas-based media-tracking organization recently announced that it had concluded, via a sophisticated statistical analysis of news sources, that China's leapfrog up the global economic hierarchy was the top story of the past decade. This claim is debatable: the Iraq War, climate change, terrorism and the financial crisis all garnered plenty of headlines. Still, there has certainly been a dramatic upsurge in fascination with and concern over the People's Republic - and a concomitant proliferation of Big China Books, as I like to call works that carry titles that cry out to be put in bold type...
...Times is in the same fix as most other old-media outlets, including this magazine. Online ads don't bring in enough to support the massive news operation that attracts those 17 million people. Last year, the Times won five Pulitzer Prizes - and borrowed $250 million from a Mexican billionaire to keep the lights on. (See the top 10 newspaper movies...
...will show them a way to rage against the dying of the light, if not with the pay wall then with its plan (similar to the efforts of companies like Time Inc.) to develop content for the Apple iPad, the $499-$829 gadget journos pray will somehow make digital news as cool (and sellable) as a Lady Gaga single...
...often seems to consist mainly of links to New York Times articles, show that there's still a desire for an arbiter of truth. The idea that I can believe it because I read it in the Times was never 100% true, nor was it true for any other news organization. But the paper represented a certain baseline of agreed-on information. If that no longer exists, what distinguishes a news report from an e-mail rumor your uncle forwarded...
...Media institution is indispensable: not the Times, not the evening news, not TIME magazine. People don't owe us their money; we owe it to them to be worth paying for. If we go, people will find other sources to trust; in some cases, they already have...