Friday, August 22, 2008

The No Duh Statement of the Week

From a story out of the London bureau of The Company:

Experts say European papers are prospering largely because they haven’t followed the U.S. path of draconian — and self-defeating — cuts in scope and quality of coverage.
“It’s a mystery to me why (U.S.) publishers think people will pay more for less, especially when the online world offers so many alternatives,” said George Kennedy, a professor emeritus at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.


*sigh.* And that's really all I have to say about that.

2 comments:

Editor's Note said...

George! He was my ME at the Missourian back in the day, and he knows what he's talking about from under that Wilford Brimley mustache.

blythe said...

I LOVE HIM! He was one of my mentors, yo. What a hard core bad ass. I was there for his last "real" year. Oh, GK.