magazines – The Solomon Scandals

Traffic booster for big news sites? Reader-Writer Dialogue Boxes?

David Rothman June 24, 2012June 21, 2014 0 comment

What counts more for Web-era writers of news or opinion? Coming up with snappy, credible, well-researched articles? Or improving dialogues with readers, in the best tradition of the Internet’s interactivity? Short of cloning themselves or pulling off a Philip K. Dick android act, writers for many of the most popular news sites lack enough time for […]

BRAC-133: The Quarter Pentagon , Media , Washington area life

‘Conde Nast Maidens’ vs. grubby defense workers as terrorist bait

David Rothman June 3, 2011June 12, 2012 0 comment

Terrorists must love the Quarter Pentagon, aka BRAC-133, just off I-395 here in Alexandria, Virginia. We’re talking about 6,400 defense workers destined for an unsecured location, perfect for a drive-by missile shooting—and let’s not forget, either, the idiocy of the Army Corps of Engineer in bragging about its high-profile target. The geniuses even managed to […]

Media , The Solomon Scandals

Should Web sites bossed by ad agencies replace your daily newspaper someday?

David Rothman November 9, 2009December 27, 2009 0 comment

The CEO of giant WPP Group—a global ad-agency holding company with major financial firepower and a fondness for acquisitions—complains of too many newspapers and magazines. Might Martin Sorrell, shown during a BBC World interview on a different topic, be badmouthing the old media while quietly hoping to snap up a few publications during the Great […]