Thursday 6 March 2008

Off the news or on the news

CNN has bounced back to life, it is reported in today's International Herald Tribune.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/05/technology/cnn.php

They did this through getting away from off-the-news chat (comme chez Renard) to hard news (and indeed business and editorial departments going off together for luxury retreats, working on some Exxon op-ed space perhaps).

Does this mean newspapers need to get "off-the-news"?

I think not. Print can't compete in a 24 news cycle when you are constantly 24 hours behind, so leave that to CNN and indeed, get off your proverbial (but not like Fox) and off-the-news.

Unless you are scooping it.

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