I wonder if Prof. Stavitsky has his Ducks basketball season tickets yet? It's certainly going to be a tough ticket to get once that awesome new arena opens up next year. For reals.

Asking Bhatia (or anybody representing S.I. Newhouse) about the future of journalism is like asking Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin about the future of air travel.

It's the arrogance of statements like the "future of democracy at stake" that's part of their hemorrhaging. The fact is the Internet has crashed the barriers to public accessing information and does not need ivory tower mumblecrusts to tell us how and what to think anymore.
(PS - under way is 2 words)

http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ss…

lulllz

There are three key services newspapers can provide which, if adopted by the Oregonian, would save their sorry ass business.

1. hooker ads
2. reporters willing to receive expletives from local politicians instead of reasoned responses
3. pay arts reporters more than $120 a month

Well, Bhatia is one up on the Mercury.

I actually agree with D.


Excuse me, I've got to go put a coat on Hitler.

D - see this! http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090406/nich…

I'd like Bhatia or someone at the O to explain why they keep renewing their contract with Oregonlive. Why did they hire a third party company to manage their online presence? And one with crap for code, with permalinks that are anything but perma, and with its own batch of content writers who totally fuzz the line between what is Oregonian content and what isn't? Oregonlive is a terribly crappy website, and it's the number 1 reason why I can barely stand to read the Oregonian.

For whatever it's worth, Stavitsky says in a tweet that he was quoting a media critic when he said Digg-like sites were parasitic. Also, OregonLive and The Oregonian, even though they are separate corporations, are under the common ownership of the Newhouse family in New Jersey. Combining O-Live and The O would solve most of the content and technical problems, so it's inexplicable why they don't take such a simple, obvious step.

Oregonlive is not really a "third party;" they're a sibling company with the same parent (Newhouse). All of Newhouse's papers are stuck with this kind of arrangement.

How about if they stop running "THE BARCOLOUNGER OF DEATH" on the front page? Huh?

Anyone?

Thanks Kiala. Be careful of that Hitler kook, he's a national socialist you know.

I was listening to this last night, and I heard someone -- not sure who -- say something that I think really gets to the heart of why people think newspaper people are dinosaurs. In response to a question about the Kindle, he said that he had found out about a new innovation in flexible flat displays that simulate the effect of turning a page, saying or implying that that would get the mainstream public interested in the digitization of news content.

Yeah, I'll switch right after they invent an e-reader that gets ink all over my hands.

I think I'd like to see the Oregonian get a little more softer and pliable, and, if they put it on a roll, that would save me a lot of time.

The internet hasn't killed the newspapers, cable news did that. The internet is just the nail in the coffin.

Newspaper is a dead medium and it needs to be buried. It's a waste of resources in an age where nearly everyone has a computer and a smart phone. We still need a daily newspaper, not just weekly tabloids, but without the paper. The Oregonian should quit being a conduit for the AP and focus on local, daily, in-depth reporting.

The only thing I worry about is having a physical archive of the news for historical purposes. I don't trust that digital media and records will last 100 years, but paper has been a surprisingly durable source of information.