Book Notes

Several items of note: Patrick Frey, whose right-of-center Patterico’s Pontifications blog has been a useful thorn in the side of the Los Angeles Times , has posted a kind and thoughtful review of We the Media. (He disagrees, in a separate posting , with one particular line in the book.) The Financial Times ran a long article this week about my book and a related book by a British journalist. I can’t point to the piece, by Alan Cane, because it’s behind a subscription wall. But it’s a deep look at some the big issues facing journalism. Interestingly, Frey’s piece comes on the day when we learned that the LA Times is closing its national print edition , citing the Internet as a good enough way to reach readers outside the LA metro area. I also got an email this morning from Phil Shapiro, noting a (relatively) long-ago conversation he had with a Washington Post reporter. Journalism is changing, he observes.