iTimes

Would you pay 99 cents for Frank Rich’s opinion?

“Let’s Invent an iTunes for News”

“Free is not a business model,” said Mr. Moffett of Bernstein. “It sounded good and everybody got excited about it, but when you look around, it is clear that is creating havoc and will not work in the long term.” (He pointed out with a laugh that his report on print for Bernstein, a proprietary piece of research, was quickly passed around as Web samizdat.)” Written by David Carr.

from The New York Times

Face It, They’re Doomed

Stop the presses.

“How the Newspapers Tried to Invent the Web”

“Despite being early arrivals, despite having spent millions on manpower and hardware, despite all the animations, links, videos, databases, and other software tricks found on their sites, every newspaper Web site is instantly identifiable as a newspaper Web site. ” Written by Jack Schafer.

from Slate