Roger Black in a long and excellent post about The New York Times and their media strategy, makes this compelling observation:
Frequency and currency trump perspective and background on the web. It’s more a matter of “this just in” than “you gotta read this article.”
That not only describes The Times, it describes almost every blog I visit. I don’t want that to ever describe this blog. From time to time it may, but I strive for “you gotta read this article”. When I stop to think about all the “old media” publications, there are only two that I think are currently publishing the type of “you gotta read this” content:
- The New Yorker
- Vanity Fair
One of those two you would expect…