Comments on: Tom Connell: When the last ink’s dried http://stilgherrian.com/media/tom-connell-when-the-last-inks-dried/ All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris. Vive les poissons rouges sauvages! Sat, 19 May 2012 21:24:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/media/tom-connell-when-the-last-inks-dried/#comment-19345 Stilgherrian Mon, 04 May 2009 23:15:34 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=4176#comment-19345 <strong>@John:</strong> Maybe the "blond surfing labrador metaphors" are a Melbourne thing? You Queenslanders wouldn't get it. <strong>@Richard:</strong> Well, as this website's tagline says, "All communication is propaganda." Mr Pilger is a good communicator, therefore... ;) <strong>@Sylvano:</strong> If anyone's going to take Mr Murdoch's Imperative seriously, then the news had better be something that people will be willing to pay for, eh? <strong>... and in all of this:</strong> One of the key issues for newspaper proprietors is understanding that we can now separate the content ("news" or "journalism" or even "advertising") from the content ("newspapers"). I'm increasingly starting to think that if they continue to jumble the two, they <em>will</em> fail. @John: Maybe the “blond surfing labrador metaphors” are a Melbourne thing? You Queenslanders wouldn’t get it.

@Richard: Well, as this website’s tagline says, “All communication is propaganda.” Mr Pilger is a good communicator, therefore… ;)

@Sylvano: If anyone’s going to take Mr Murdoch’s Imperative seriously, then the news had better be something that people will be willing to pay for, eh?

… and in all of this: One of the key issues for newspaper proprietors is understanding that we can now separate the content (“news” or “journalism” or even “advertising”) from the content (“newspapers”). I’m increasingly starting to think that if they continue to jumble the two, they will fail.

]]> By: Sylvano http://stilgherrian.com/media/tom-connell-when-the-last-inks-dried/#comment-19332 Sylvano Mon, 04 May 2009 20:49:46 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=4176#comment-19332 Good to see I could get to the end of the article without reading "business model" once! Remember that Murdoch told an audience earlier in April (according to Reuters), "People reading news for free on the Web, that's got to change." An Imperative, I believe! ;-) Good to see I could get to the end of the article without reading “business model” once!

Remember that Murdoch told an audience earlier in April (according to Reuters), “People reading news for free on the Web, that’s got to change.”

An Imperative, I believe! ;-)

]]> By: Richard http://stilgherrian.com/media/tom-connell-when-the-last-inks-dried/#comment-19278 Richard Mon, 04 May 2009 07:49:42 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=4176#comment-19278 John Pilger bemoaning 'propaganda'? Thanks for the first big laugh of the week. John Pilger bemoaning ‘propaganda’? Thanks for the first big laugh of the week.

]]> By: John http://stilgherrian.com/media/tom-connell-when-the-last-inks-dried/#comment-19253 John Mon, 04 May 2009 03:19:24 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=4176#comment-19253 Interesting article -- but I don't get the blond surfing labrador metaphors ... Interesting article — but I don’t get the blond surfing labrador metaphors …

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