More Scheer Stupidity..

What, he thinks it's the SF Chronicles' "content" which makes something NEWS? This is the "if a tree falls in a deserted forest does it make a sound" concept.

It just underpins what conservatives have been saying for years. These guys seriously think "news" is only what "they" report.

Actually what they report as news has merged so seemlessly with "opinion" that once trusted sources like the AP and Reuters are nothing more than partisan hacks for their "worldview."

Go on, Do it. Give us 24 hours when we don't have your particular, weird, quasi-socialist, PC opinions stuffed down our throats while you pretend you're unbiased.

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I think this Peter Scheer guy needs to talk to his crack dealer about the quality of the product.

or

Maybe he needs to get out of the office more.

Seriously, is the print media not dying fast enough for him?

"People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news."  - A.J. Liebling

Boy, if my tagline isn't appropriate now, it will never be.

...by depriving the Internet of ... trustworthy news...

And this relates to the San Francisco Chronicle how...?

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"Government should only do what only government can do."
-- Prime Minister Kim Campbell, 1993

A news embargo!  The first shots in the censorship war to silence the right on the Internet and talk radio have just been fired.  This guy Scheer is their point man and this is the first trial balloon to see if they will be able to put this over on the American people.  These people and this trial ballon need immediate resistance.

Scheer.  I wonder if he has a kinky uniform in his closet with tall black leather boots, an armband, a Kepi, and Jhodpurs?

"Mr. Scheer, if you want to see how not-indispensable you and your media brethren are -- Go ahead and make our 24-hour embargoed day."

Agreed.  Scheer obviously doesn't understand the nature of the media he is trying to affect, nor the nature of globally-available information. He's trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube.

The underlying problem in the newspaper business was revealed in one word of the column. "Free." Despite the existence of Paypal and various others, there's no widely adopted worldwide system which allows easy micropayments for being a first-mover on news stories, so everyone must rely on ad-revenue streams which may or may-not (usually the latter) reflect viewership or (more-importantly) viewer trust. Would internet users pay a micropayment instead of the recurring subscription-fees newspapers and creditcard companies desperately-want us to use?

My answer is, "maybe." I'm not sure Newspapers even want to know the information micropayments might give them. They'd need to address their bias issues, in my case, for me to be very-interested in paying for any of their articles. Scheer's interest in all this is different from mine, it's probably best described as "getting & somehow-keeping Scheer paid for this gig," but for Scheer's interests & mine to coincide not-only will the preferred payment system probably need to change, the rampant mediabias will need to change too. There's just too much good, free, biasbustin' content out there, and Scheer's competing with people like US, the unpaid-writers on NewsBusters.

I suspect he's beginning to sense that fact, which means he might be the best thing his newspaper's boardroom has ever seen -- IF they draw the right conclusions...
JMR

MSM already wait to report news on command from Democrats, as in Rep. Foley, Trent Lott, Bush's DUI arrest, etc. Didn't Newsweak [cq] wait two to three weeks after learning of Clinton's stains on Monica's dress? Eleanor Clift was probably angry that B.J. Clinton turned down her oral overture; after all, we all know how badly Clift sucks. And heaven forbid she start talking and make your ears bleed, too.