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Why Won't Alt-Weeklies Try To Win On The Internet?

Choire · 12/10/07 06:20PM

The Chicago Reader cut more costs last week by firing four of its most experienced journalists. "Thousands of bloggers could type for a millennium and not come up with the kind of deeply reported story that freed innocent men," writes New York Times media columnist David Carr of the work of those fired. A millennium is a long time but that is probably totally true! But what's more: Does firing real journalists actually cut costs? A look at any newspaper's most popular stories suggests the most obvious thing of all: That reporting actually makes money for newspapers.

Choire · 10/01/07 08:40AM

"In Rainbows," heretofore to be known as Radiohead's seventh and gayest album, will be available for download on October 10th—for whatever price you wish to pay. The gloomy-twee art-rockers are no longer beholden to a corporate master. Display Basket [Radiohead]