what's in a name?

A newspaper industry analyst proposes the following model to save the newspaper from the same fate as the town crier (the town crier!):

"A smaller, less frequently published version packed with analysis and investigative reporting and aimed at well-educated news junkies that may well be a smart survival strategy for the beleaguered old print product."

Let’s see.  Smaller.  Less frequently published.  Analysis and investigative reporting.  Aimed at well-educated news junkies.  Hmm.  

I guess we could call this new-fangled thing a ‘serialized fortnightly news and analysis delivery system.’  Or better yet, how about ‘Arthur Sulzberger’s self-edification method.’  No, doesn’t really have any sort of ring to it.  What about, oh, I don’t know, ‘magazine.’  Or, I know I may be going out on a limb here, but why not ‘periodical’?  And perhaps some of these new-style newspapers could even be published online, like Slate or Salon.  There.  Problem solved, newspapers saved! 

 

(Via the most popular one-man political blog site in the world*)

 

*Oh, and by the way, the most popular one-man political blogger in all of the world (Oceania, Eastasia, and Eurasia!) actually has a significant team of interns  and other support helping him to produce his blog.  So really a corrective is in order.  It’s not quite accurate to refer to oneself as the “most popular one-man political blog site in the world” so much as it would be to refer to one's blog as “the most popular one-man political blog site in the world that’s written, researched, edited, etc., by a team of folks but for whom all of the credit for such work is given exclusively to one individual.”