Love this line, from Dave: I have no idea how these guys got the idea that they could save the news industry by becoming the tech industry.
Dave’s the only guy I know who reliably schools both the journalism and the tech industries, often at the same time. Well done.
Those guys always crack me up. All of them seem to think that it is the technology that is wrong with the paper, never the news they choose to serve up.
And while there are problems with the “paper” (pulp or electronic) there are more problems with the “news” that they cannot or will not see.
Phone conversation yesterday, and the idea of L3C’s (low profit LLC’s) for newspapers. Community supported, marginally profitable entities.
Interesting.