In response to a Goldy editorial about Frank Blethen, owner of the Seattle Tomes, crying about the loss of ad revenue.
I could give royal turd for Blethen BUT I am concerned that we have not as yet fun d a way to create online media that compete as well for attention as the
One of the best things about the 2008 revolution is that Dean-Obama have found a way around the rich folks owning a campaign. BUT Huff/Slate/Kos/HA/Drudge etc are still little more than rumor shops.
I think Blethen may be part right in that serious reorting requires support and the only useful model for that has been the advert. dollar paid to newspapers and TV.
As a photographer, I am very disturbed by the dreadful LACK of photojournalism in Iraq! Yeh, I hear a lot of excuses but I suspect the bottom line is a lack of the $$$ that were enough, in a past era, to pay Robert Capa and his ilk and to support Life and other media that showed the work of the great social photographers. Other than the snaps from Abu Grave, there has been virtually NO unimportant photography from this war!
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