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1. Lefty Says:
   May 8th, 2009 at 9:43 pm

   I am 93% on JB’s side of this, which I fully expect to be the side that loses the current battle if not the war. However, I think his critics raise a very fair criticism of Arkansas News Bureau ripping off their for the most part masturbatory analysis or ripped off content. The News Bureau’s poaching mostly just signifies that it will not go the way of the dinosaurs without trying to adapt and evolve.

   While I will deeply miss the old print media, I think its demise has more to do with a business model that doesn’t work in the digital age than it does with bloggers ripping them off.

   But so many bloggers offer so many empty calories, and through good intentions do so much to harm public discourse — they’re just easy not to like and to point fingers at.

   I also want to say the Arkansas Blog has been the greatest addition to news gathering in Arkansas over the last decade, the comments it collects are a public disservice, and the liberal egging on has caused Max Brantly to become a parody of himself as far as editorial comments go.

   I think one of the best strategies for survival and relevance in the digital age I have seen is John Brummett’s taking on the new media pauper barons. He’s gotten a lot of mileage from them without having to embrace their tactics.

   Note: If this is written worse or has more misspellings than most of my work, it’s because I composed it on a “smartphone.”

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   May 8th, 2009 at 11:49 am

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