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“Fail” gets the NYT treatment

By Michael Becker | Published: August 17, 2009
The New York Times’ “On Language” blog has a post about the word “fail” and how it has trans­formed from com­mon verb to Internet excla­ma­tion to noun — and even adjec­tive in some cases. Ben Huh, CEO of Pet Holdings, the com­pany that owns Fail Blog, told the Times that “fail” really took off because of the [...]
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More TriCityNews reaction

By Michael Becker | Published: December 26, 2008
Pat Thornton at The Journalism Iconoclast reacts to Anil Dash’s post about TriCityNews. Dash, you may recall, won­ders whether the alt weekly is really a “news“paper at all or just an adspace. Thornton agrees with Dash and chides the New York Times article’s author, David Carr, for “not prov­ing that the triC­i­tyNews serves its com­mu­nity [...]
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Shunning the Web and thriving?

By Michael Becker | Published: December 23, 2008
I read with some inter­est the recent New York Times arti­cle about the TriCityNews in Monmouth County, N.J. According to writer David Carr, the lit­tle alt weekly “aggres­sively ignores the Web” and has turned a tidy profit each year since 1999, basi­cally a rever­sal of the bust times other news­pa­pers have faced dur­ing the same [...]
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