Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Dailies Vs. Alt-weeklies, According to Dan Savage
Posted by Sharon on Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 5:30 PM
In his "So What Do You Do" Q&A feature on Mediabistro today, The Stranger editor and sexytime columnist Dan Savage says dailies are sinking family style Disney cruise ships for Olds:
Alt-weeklies are really just about advocacy journalism and truth-telling, and they engage in arguments and throw bombs in the way that daily papers can't allow themselves to. I mean, daily newspapers all need to put "fuck" in a headline above the fold one day -- it'll solve all their problems. That's my prescription. And then in one fell swoop they'll get rid of all those 80-year-old subscribers who won't let them drop "Blondie." Catering to the 80-year-olds? Where's that getting newspapers? Making sure there's nothing in your paper that's inappropriate for an eighty-year-old to read?Long live alt-weeklies, in theory, apparently, the only media dog incapable of sleepwalking into economic extinction.
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