Aram Zucker-Scharff

“”But these problems are different — a wildfire with zero percent containment. The issue is violence, which is what the league has packaged and sold as entertainment for decades. Now the violence being questioned is not just the kind inflicted against other players, on every single play, though growing evidence and concern over brain damage haunts and threatens the game’s long-term survival.
[…]
What has the N.F.L. reeling now are the violent acts committed by its players against women and children. The disease of violence is spreading.””

– As Life Imitates Brutal Sport, Cheers Have Uneasy Resonance.

The homepage is dead, the section home page is dead, the app is dead and the social web has won—even at NYT. :

Traffic to the New York Times homepage fell by half in the last two years, according to the newspaper’s internal review of its digital strategy. Here’s the very stark chart: That’s not necessarily a reflection of any problems at the Times but the reality of how news is now distributed on the internet. Homepage traffic is declining at…

The new reality: news is all push, no pull.

““The bundle is the Gibraltar of the media business,” said Tim Wu, the author of “The Master Switch,” a history of media revolutions. “It keeps the entire ecosystem alive, which is why it is so heavily and successfully defended. But there are hairline fractures beginning to appear, and you are seeing alliances shift.””

– At NYT, David Carr explains why the long standing ‘bundle’ system for delivering advertising on many platforms (especially cable TV) is now failing and why the consequences for TV may be immense. 

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FJP: We’ll never read the New York Times the same again.