Comments on: Press Institute Closes Doors http://citmedia.org/blog/2008/11/12/press-institute-closes-doors-again/ Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:49:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: anonymous coward http://citmedia.org/blog/2008/11/12/press-institute-closes-doors-again/comment-page-1/#comment-2782 anonymous coward Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:03:09 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/?p=1539#comment-2782 > "Or that The A-Listers Weren’t Invited..." <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/episodes/" rel="nofollow">Hey! who turned out the lights?</a> > “Or that The A-Listers Weren’t Invited…”

Hey! who turned out the lights?

]]> By: Jon Garfunkel http://citmedia.org/blog/2008/11/12/press-institute-closes-doors-again/comment-page-1/#comment-2781 Jon Garfunkel Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:22:58 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/?p=1539#comment-2781 What an odd coincidence -- it was a week before your appointment to ASU a year ago that Steve Buttry of the API came to campus to discuss the Newspaper Next project. Tim McGuire of the Cronkite faculty attended, and was pleasantly surprised... though a bit <a href="http://cronkite.asu.edu/mcguireblog/?p=31" rel="nofollow">disappointed by the turnout</a>: <blockquote> I had to overcome substantial initial pique when I realized the crowd was going to be abysmal. I am talking eight people plus six ASU professors in a room designed to seat 120. Either API’s marketing was frighteningly bad or Arizona newspaper executives are convinced they have this future thing knocked. I guess abject apathy and/or despair are also possibilities. </blockquote> You can take a quantum of solace in the fact that as long as there are newspapers, there'll be newspaper conferences. What an odd coincidence — it was a week before your appointment to ASU a year ago that Steve Buttry of the API came to campus to discuss the Newspaper Next project. Tim McGuire of the Cronkite faculty attended, and was pleasantly surprised… though a bit disappointed by the turnout:

I had to overcome substantial initial pique when I realized the crowd was going to be abysmal. I am talking eight people plus six ASU professors in a room designed to seat 120. Either API’s marketing was frighteningly bad or Arizona newspaper executives are convinced they have this future thing knocked. I guess abject apathy and/or despair are also possibilities.

You can take a quantum of solace in the fact that as long as there are newspapers, there’ll be newspaper conferences.

]]> By: Seth Finkelstein http://citmedia.org/blog/2008/11/12/press-institute-closes-doors-again/comment-page-1/#comment-2780 Seth Finkelstein Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:11:01 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/?p=1539#comment-2780 "continues to miss the point of open media in an open society." Huh? The point is to have only public meetings so bloggers can take snarky cheap shots at people and sell ads against the eyeballs? Or that The A-Listers Weren't Invited, which of course is prime evidence of Not Getting It, since they have a divine right to a piece of any action? How much can be expected to come out of any such meeting anyway? “continues to miss the point of open media in an open society.”

Huh? The point is to have only public meetings so bloggers can take snarky cheap shots at people and sell ads against the eyeballs? Or that The A-Listers Weren’t Invited, which of course is prime evidence of Not Getting It, since they have a divine right to a piece of any action?

How much can be expected to come out of any such meeting anyway?

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