Get rid of the sports department.<\/p>\n
Oh, maybe you can keep a couple of columnists, but everybody doing stories, hard news on anything but New York sports teams, is kaput!<\/p>\n
If I want to see who’s winning in the NFL, I go to nfl.com, not nytimes.com.\u00c2\u00a0 If television killed "Life" magazine, why can’t the Internet kill the "New York Times"?<\/p>\n
It’s not about protecting your old business model, but making peace with the new world.\u00c2\u00a0 Lady GaGa has sold over five million digital copies of "Poker Face" in the U.S., but only two and a half million copies of her album "Fame".\u00c2\u00a0 What’s wrong with this picture?\u00c2\u00a0 Nothing!\u00c2\u00a0 Unless you’re looking at it backwards, trying to recapture the twentieth century in the twenty first.<\/p>\n
Instead of figuring out how to sell more albums, how do you get people to buy this number of tracks on impulse?\u00c2\u00a0 That’s the question.<\/p>\n
Just like the "New York Times" shouldn’t be trying to protect their old paper, but creating a new one, that can sustain.<\/p>\n
Maybe you just can’t have the same overhead.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe that’s the trick.\u00c2\u00a0 Slicing departments and getting those writers that remain to work harder for less pay.\u00c2\u00a0 Heretical in the journalistic world, but sometimes you’ve got to deal with reality.<\/p>\n
Shit, I could fix the "New York Times" in a minute.<\/p>\n
First, a complete redesign.\u00c2\u00a0 Steal the designer of the HuffPo immediately.\u00c2\u00a0 You should be able to scan the homepage of the "New York Times" in mere seconds and be able to grasp what’s going on in the world.\u00c2\u00a0 Doesn’t mean that the "Times" has to write every article, maybe link to someone else who does, like the HuffPo.<\/p>\n
As for charging the way they propose…\u00c2\u00a0 Do you like getting pecked to death by ducks?\u00c2\u00a0 What, am I going to have to download an app that tells me how many articles I’ve got left each month?\u00c2\u00a0 (For the record, I won’t have to do that, because I pay for the physical paper, so I’m gonna get unlimited use.)<\/p>\n
The "Times" has to remake itself for today.\u00c2\u00a0 Just like record labels and television networks.\u00c2\u00a0 TV network ratings are never going to go back up.\u00c2\u00a0 You’ve got to spend less on programming, or repurpose that which you do air, or both.\u00c2\u00a0 You’ve got no choice.<\/p>\n
Record labels have to have fair deals, be in partnership with artists, delivering that which an individual can’t get alone.<\/p>\n
Ever notice the Internet brings light to a situation?\u00c2\u00a0 Do the labels truly think they can rip off artists forever?\u00c2\u00a0 Shit, their misdeeds are all over the Web, and if you don’t think this will catch up with them, just ask Domino’s Pizza.<\/p>\n
But at least Domino’s is admitting its pizza is shitty.\u00c2\u00a0 They reformulated it.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/p>\n
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