Comments on: Fiddling while Rome burns http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/10/31/fiddling-while-rome-burns/ Media, Baseball, Boston, the Red Sox, Music, Literature, and Mnookins Fri, 16 May 2008 20:40:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: 99balloons http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/10/31/fiddling-while-rome-burns/#comment-1869 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:49:19 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/10/31/fiddling-while-rome-burns/#comment-1869 As every journalist knows all too well, this kind of idiocy is pervasive. It's not only the Times that won't do stories because the Journal beat them and vice versa. It extends well beyond the big boys. There are editors at probably 50 newspapers and 77 magazines who look at both these publications to see if they've been "scooped" on some story--quite regularly killing better pieces of journalism out of their misguided sense of mission and delusions of grandeur about their own place in the journalism universe. As every journalist knows all too well, this kind of idiocy is pervasive. It’s not only the Times that won’t do stories because the Journal beat them and vice versa. It extends well beyond the big boys. There are editors at probably 50 newspapers and 77 magazines who look at both these publications to see if they’ve been “scooped” on some story–quite regularly killing better pieces of journalism out of their misguided sense of mission and delusions of grandeur about their own place in the journalism universe.

]]> by: deversm http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/10/31/fiddling-while-rome-burns/#comment-1866 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 03:25:35 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/10/31/fiddling-while-rome-burns/#comment-1866 I challenge you to end your next blog post without parentheses. <i>(Ain't no way that's gonna happen -- Seth)</i> I challenge you to end your next blog post without parentheses.

(Ain’t no way that’s gonna happen — Seth)

]]> by: northernlady1115 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/10/31/fiddling-while-rome-burns/#comment-1860 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:29:44 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/10/31/fiddling-while-rome-burns/#comment-1860 as one of the miniscule number who read both the Washington Post and the NY Times (and I read them in Missouri)I don't read the same story in both papers. The first story that catches my eye is the one I read, then finding the same story in the other paper -- I generally skip it. However, I will admit to having a preference for how one paper covers certain stories over the other's coverage. Oh, your question was about WSJ Saturday's editions. Must confess, I found the first few reads strained. Felt WSJ was trying to reach folks that wouldn't normally read the week-day edition. While I understand the impetus to try and broaden the appeal, it felt like WSJ was trying to appeal to a broader audience and risked losing the loyal base they already had. as one of the miniscule number who read both the Washington Post and the NY Times (and I read them in Missouri)I don’t read the same story in both papers. The first story that catches my eye is the one I read, then finding the same story in the other paper — I generally skip it. However, I will admit to having a preference for how one paper covers certain stories over the other’s coverage.

Oh, your question was about WSJ Saturday’s editions. Must confess, I found the first few reads strained. Felt WSJ was trying to reach folks that wouldn’t normally read the week-day edition. While I understand the impetus to try and broaden the appeal, it felt like WSJ was trying to appeal to a broader audience and risked losing the loyal base they already had.

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