They’ve killed James Lileks

Published on 8 May 2007 at 11:10 am | No Comments | Trackback
Filed under The Cargo Cults of Business, Manifest Masquerade, Winners and Losers, One Corporation Under God, In Corporations We Trust, Technopolitical, Blogosphere, Business and Corporation Related, Economics and the Economy, Main Stream Media, Humor.

 The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, suffering like many papers from revenue loss, has re-assigned one of its best opinion columnists to write "straight" news and features. James Lileks’ column, a feature for many years, is gone. With it goes the only reason to read the rage, when you get right down to it.

Read more here:  http://www.lileks.com/bleats/archive/07/0507/050707.html

And if you don’t know who James Lileks is, start here: http://www.lileks.com.

Among other things, he _gets_ what the Internet is, and what needs to happen to local papers in the new world.

His management sure doesn’t, though. 

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