I'm no business-world genius, but I'm smart enough to know that Warren Buffet is. Seems to me the guy from Omaha has a pretty good sense of what will make money and what won't.
So what did he say about newspapers?
They're in permanent decline.
I can't help but wonder about the Star's beautiful new printing press. Is that going to become a financial albatross around their neck?
If I were still working for a local news outlet, I'd be pouring over documents made public in the Knight-Ridder sale to find out how much they owe on that thing.
Again, I wonder about their web presence. Are they going to put as much effort into making their website look good as they are into their print product?
To me, Buffet's warning seems obvious. I don't subscribe to the paper and I doubt I ever will again. It's big and awkward, too demanding physically. I can't scan it digitally. I have to clean my hands I after I read it. And every week I've got to lub a heavy pile of the old news out to the curb.
No thanks.
A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
A Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the Year
One of Kansas City Star's 100 Noteworthy Books of the Year
Winner of the William Rockhill Nelson Award for Nonfiction
Winner of the Harry Chapin Media Award
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Forget the nerdy reputation that debate has. Instead think of a scenario as exciting as a sports game with high stakes like triumphing over racism. bad politics and abject poverty... An important, thoughtful and provocative look at race and class in America.
- The Boston Globe
Joe Miller's enthusiasm is infectious and the plot creates the suspense of a good courtroom thriller.
- Entertainment Weekly
The minute I finished Joe Miller's Cross-X, I held the book out in front of me -- amazed, rapturous, and hopeful... Miller's mesmerizing, vivid accounts of the debates will leave you crouched in your seat, holding your breath... An incredibly powerful, daringly hopeful book.
- Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Irresistible... Miller begins breezily but is soon deeply invested in the Central squad's mission to not only master the debate game on its own terms but revolutionize it with flashes of poetry and hip-hop wordplay... If all these kids could run things, Miller implies, imagine what could get done.
- Elle
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I know it's off topic, but I'm sure you still follow KCMSD politics. They revealed their candidates today, one of whom I found was accused of financial mismanagement after Googling for a whole 45 seconds:
Posted Saturday, November 09, 2002 by Casey
News Flash! Mismanagement in Public Schools!
According to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution:
"Birmingham and Alabama school officials say millions of dollars were overspent--and millions more lost due to mistakes--under former Superintendent Johnny Brown, who now heads DeKalb County schools."
Two other candidates (Aquine Brown and Audrey Donaldson) have been finalists multiple times in the past year, but that could be a good thing, we'll get everyone else's second place (an improvement for us?). Donaldson does have ties to Sylvan Learning Centers, so I'd give it about a month after she's hired before KCMSD signs a contract.
The final candidate is a former superintendent from South Carolina who was the operations officer for the 101st airborne. He's currently a middle school principal, and he's white, which means for better or for worse he probably doesn't have a chance.
DRE
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