Newspapers, Tycoons, The Future.

The investment newsletter the Motley Fool has an insightful posting on what promises to be a major theme of 2007: big investors speculating and bidding on newspapers. The Fool speculates that many of these big investors are driven by vanity. They are old, goes the argument, they read newspapers, so they assume everyone [...]

Destroyer of Worlds: Bhagavad Gita and Hangovers

It’s moving quickly. Since Ganesha’s Scribe has been offline shopping for a new computer, there have been more layoffs, more media blogs popping up and more punditry. MediaShift is a good one. In the latest posting, the host discusses if editors still have a place in the era of ‘citizen journalism.’ [...]

Trib Sale Could Fall Flat

One emerging pattern in 2006 wa an increasing shift in ownership structures in the U.S. print media. There seems to be an increasing trend of transition from public to private ownership, or boosted equity stakes held by large, individual shareholders. We saw this with the McClatchy Group sale last year and the speculation [...]

A New Frontier, A New Blog.

This is the inaugural, de-virginising posting for Ganesha’s Gripes, a journal tracking the transformation of print media, mainly newspapers and magazines.
Ganesha’s Gripes also includes random thoughts on style, usage, the writing process, and politics in Southeast Asia, where Ganesha’s Scripe lives in the real world.
The Blog is named after Ganesha, a Hindu god of the [...]