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Mon Jan 29 -

SoFlo: DEAD TREES BURP -

Bob Norman at The Daily Pulp blog relates that Earl Maucker has been given an Editor of the Year award "for his leadership role in growing the newspaper's readership, etc." Bob addressed the kind of material this new readership has been posting online in a recent blog entry and in an article at the local New Times weekly.

Needless to add, I don't agree with the award. Most residents of Broward County get their news from their TV's, and I haven't seen any hard evidence that Maucker has significantly changed that. Moreover, his rantings against independent blogs simply antagonize people.

:: Also at E&P:

*Big media conglomerates have less influence amid the continued explosion of news sites, blogs and podcasts, ...Rupert Murdoch said in a Davos session moderated by Charlie Rose and available via Webcast.*

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