Pajama Entrepreneur

I will admit that I love the printed word. I buy books, love glossy magazines with beautiful photos, especially love books and mags with gorgeous paper. Although I am a gadget freak and cannot live with the Internet, I still love print. So I think I will subscribe to this new quarterly magazine called Dispatches which the Washington Post recently wrote about:

While newspapers and news magazines have been adopting ever-faster schedules to keep up with the 24-hour news cycle prompted by the always-on nature of the Internet, Dispatches is slowing down the breathless delivery of “what” and downplaying instant analysis.

“Rather than compete with existing newspeople, we just thought we would go deeper and, when possible, closer, and deal with not so much the what and who, but the why and what can be done,” said Rosenblum, a globetrotting former correspondent for the Associated Press and author of the book “Escaping Plato’s Cave: How America’s Blindness to the Rest of the World Threatens Our Survival.”

Rosenblum’s website (http://www.mortrosenblum.net) says cutbacks and deterioration in U.S. journalism brought on by ad sales declines and shareholder demands for constant profit leave readers without sources of analysis in times that are more dangerous and uncertain than ever.

A lot of blogs and news sites focus on quantity, not quality, because of their investors’ demand for pageviews. Who loses out? The reader, as usual. When publications become too focused on getting ads, they lose their appeal.