Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson: Ferguson and Baker on The Conservative Newsroom
Blue Yeti ·
Nov 30, 2011 at 6:21pm
This week on Uncommon Knowledge, Andrew Ferguson and Gerard Baker on journalism: creative impulses, profit margins, and the monochromatic newsroom.
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May '10
Re: Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson: Ferguson and Baker on The Conservative Newsroom
I listened to the the uncommonknowledge podcast while sitting in traffic on I-395 this morning and enjoyed it immensely. Peter is a GREAT interviewer; Mr. Baker connects us to our heritage and to our future, and Andrew Ferguson is a fearless truth-teller with apparently no sense that he has any obligations to anything else (very refreshing). But now I see that Andrew desperately needs to consider a radical haircut.
Aug '11
Re: Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson: Ferguson and Baker on The Conservative Newsroom
I was wondering how you managed to get Mark Twain as a guest -- but it turned out to be Andrew Ferguson.
May '10
Re: Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson: Ferguson and Baker on The Conservative Newsroom
I actually think that Gerard Baker's fearfully suspicious /sceptical expression in the screen capture is entirely due to the [lack of a proper] haircut, rather than anything Andrew Ferguson might have been saying about Rupert Murdoch's Empire at that moment.
Sep '11
Re: Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson: Ferguson and Baker on The Conservative Newsroom
I believe that there is little to no hope for the traditional national newspapers, or at least the nationally distributed papers, in the number that we maintain them today. The fact is that the fixed costs and barriers to entry that once existed which enabled the formation of such massive establishments like the Grey Lady are no longer present.This does not necessarily have to be a bad thing though.
A basic economic fact is that the lower fixed costs are, the smaller and more numerous the competition will be. There was a nice article that appeared in the Atlantic about this. The points I took away from it were that the fear that our democracy is in danger is largely hyperbolized and that we are, in fact, returning to a media environment much more similar to that of pre-revolutionary America than into the abyss. Mssrs. Baker and Ferguson do have a point in that the demand for well researched and edited papers will remain, but as the industry exists today, it cannot be preserved.
Oct '10
Re: Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson: Ferguson and Baker on The Conservative Newsroom
The most important comment, to me, was at the end of the third segment, wherein is explained how appalling the coverage of America is in the rest of the world. This matters.