In the midst of a DayQuil-induced stupor this morning (sort of like a post-modern-sore-throat Hemmingway thing we got going on; our third eye is squeaky clean), we report from the side of old media's deathbed. The Globe is hurting and Phoenix blogger Mark Jurkowitz gloats, natch. Dead-trees-newspapers' subscribers bases are waning across the board, and the Globe's revolutionary send-out-our-remaining-customer's-credit-card-info-to-everyone strategy surprisingly failed. The whole thing doesn't really get interesting until a comment on Dan Kennedy's Media Nation blog:

But can we please stop pussyfooting around the big issue and state the obvious about the Globe:
THE PRODUCT SUCKS.

Yes! That's the spirit — stop pussyfooting around, you limp dicks! LOUD NOISES! Fuck newspapers: even if the product is the best goddamned thing you could print, the medium would still suck. Inky fingers, top-down hierarchy, a 24-hour delay? It wasn't even that great before the web, but now it's like trying to peddle nickelodian flipbook movies to the DVD generation. We're past that. This is not to say that journalism is dead; far from it. The barriers are lower, but that doesn't mean the need for great writing and reporting is any less. Old media needs to loosen up and learn to swim.

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