Post by CassCrazy on May 1, 2012 22:12:23 GMT -6
David Simon, davidsimon.com: "I'm a writer, and while I'm overpaid to write television at present, the truth is that the prose world from which I crawled - newsprint and books - is beset by a new economic model in which the value of content is being reduced in direct proportion to the availability of free stuff on the Web... A free internet is wonderful for democratized, unresearched commentary, and it works well as a library of sorts for content that no longer requires a defense of its copyright. But journalism, literature, film, music - these endeavors need people operating at the highest professional level and they need to make a living wage. Copyright matters. Content costs."
Rex W. Huppke, Chicago Tribune: "To the shock of most sentient beings, Facts died Wednesday, April 18, after a long battle for relevancy with the 24-hour news cycle, blogs and the internet. Though few expected Facts to pull out of its years-long downward spiral, the official cause of death was from injuries suffered last week when Florida Republican Rep. Allen West steadfastly declared that as many as 81 of his fellow members of the U.S. House of Representatives are communists. Facts held on for several days after that assault - brought on without a scrap of evidence or reason - before expiring at its home in a high school physics book. Facts was 2,372... Facts is survived by two brothers, Rumor and Innuendo, and a sister, Emphatic Assertion."
Published in the April 30, 2012, edition of USA Today
Rex W. Huppke, Chicago Tribune: "To the shock of most sentient beings, Facts died Wednesday, April 18, after a long battle for relevancy with the 24-hour news cycle, blogs and the internet. Though few expected Facts to pull out of its years-long downward spiral, the official cause of death was from injuries suffered last week when Florida Republican Rep. Allen West steadfastly declared that as many as 81 of his fellow members of the U.S. House of Representatives are communists. Facts held on for several days after that assault - brought on without a scrap of evidence or reason - before expiring at its home in a high school physics book. Facts was 2,372... Facts is survived by two brothers, Rumor and Innuendo, and a sister, Emphatic Assertion."
Published in the April 30, 2012, edition of USA Today