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Showing posts with label newspapers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label newspapers. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
a good newspaper these days is hard to find...
Does anyone read the Wall Street Journal? I get emails from them occasionally with a selection of recent articles and op-ed pieces. They´re normally REALLY good.
For instance, here´s an article about native Americans that suggests ways in which to improve their economic situations. Seems very relevant for Australian aborigines as well, especially the stuff about law and order. You can´t develop economically if you´re not safe.
And here´s a really interesting article about ethanol. Best quote -
¨...So successful but politically unpopular businesses will be punished for not buying a product that does not exist...¨¨
Incidentally, apparently if you buy the petrol with ethanol in it available in Australia, your fuel consumption goes up because the ethanol has no real effect, so you´re burning more fuel in total. Don´t know how true that is.
Anyway, check out the Wall Street Journal, it´s a good read.
cheers
Harry
For instance, here´s an article about native Americans that suggests ways in which to improve their economic situations. Seems very relevant for Australian aborigines as well, especially the stuff about law and order. You can´t develop economically if you´re not safe.
And here´s a really interesting article about ethanol. Best quote -
¨...So successful but politically unpopular businesses will be punished for not buying a product that does not exist...¨¨
Incidentally, apparently if you buy the petrol with ethanol in it available in Australia, your fuel consumption goes up because the ethanol has no real effect, so you´re burning more fuel in total. Don´t know how true that is.
Anyway, check out the Wall Street Journal, it´s a good read.
cheers
Harry
Sunday, December 7, 2008
How many roads must a man walk along, before you can call him a man?
The answer my friends, is blowing in the wind, the answer is blowing in the wind....
Somewhat like that lefty rag the Age, Fairfax's trusty mainstay in the Melbourne newspaper market.
Now I'll check out the Age website occasionally to read their footy stuff during the year, especially now that the Herald Sun have a new and stupider way to arrange their columnists on the website, but apart from that the Age is good for little more than lighting fires.
It's intensely politicised (way to the left of the spectrum), consistently runs opinion or biased pieces in their news and often just gets things plain wrong.
For anyone who cares about or is interested in newspapers at all, HERE is a very interesting editorial in the Australian explaining how a newspaper should be run if it is to make a profit and decrying the decline of Fairfax and newspapers around the country and the world in general. It's very interesting and it's spot on the money. There might be 110 million bloggers out there, but they're mostly unpaid hacks (like me) spouting opinion with little or no fact checking or research. If newspapers can't leverage that comparative advantage to be big online while continuing to sell hard copy papers as well, than they're doing something wrong.
Harry out!
Somewhat like that lefty rag the Age, Fairfax's trusty mainstay in the Melbourne newspaper market.
Now I'll check out the Age website occasionally to read their footy stuff during the year, especially now that the Herald Sun have a new and stupider way to arrange their columnists on the website, but apart from that the Age is good for little more than lighting fires.
It's intensely politicised (way to the left of the spectrum), consistently runs opinion or biased pieces in their news and often just gets things plain wrong.
For anyone who cares about or is interested in newspapers at all, HERE is a very interesting editorial in the Australian explaining how a newspaper should be run if it is to make a profit and decrying the decline of Fairfax and newspapers around the country and the world in general. It's very interesting and it's spot on the money. There might be 110 million bloggers out there, but they're mostly unpaid hacks (like me) spouting opinion with little or no fact checking or research. If newspapers can't leverage that comparative advantage to be big online while continuing to sell hard copy papers as well, than they're doing something wrong.
Harry out!
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