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January 05, 2011 11:52 PM UTC
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Left-right bias is an issue, I suppose. But the worst thing for MSM is being boring. And taking Littwin off Page 2 and moving him to Op-Ed takes one of the paper’s best — and most provocative — writers and buries him in a place where the average reader requires a flashlight and a search team.
Our mantra over here at Law Week and State Bill is “break it online, explain it in print.” I truly think that’s what the Post is aiming for, too.
Littwin is the explain guy, not the break guy. He’s print, not online. He’s the kind of columnist you’d put on Page 1, not on Page 2, and certainly not where the obits run.
The challenge for the Post is finding a great conservative columnist to balance Littwin’s point of view. Harsanyi and Carroll have their moments, but neither can match Littwin’s writing. If I were editing The Post, I’d run front-page columns, an equal number of conservative and liberal ones, and hope that the writers rise up to the challenge of making their pieces worth the cover.
Why be boring? It’s a blueprint for failure …
I must have missed them. Blech!
“It’s the electrons stupid”
Touche.
That said, there should be even more of a web presence for personalities like Littwin.
Maybe not for very long, as of Oct, The Post still has a circulation of over 310,000 on weekdays, 470,000 on Sunday, and there’s a multiplier for that figure.
So don’t bury your heads in your comupters. The print edition of the Post has a huge impact on the state, still in 2011. And placement in the print edition matters a lot. I hate to think of all the people who never make it to the op-ed page.
But I agree, Littwin should be better featured on The Post website.
To you other point, Don, you recall that the Rocky put Littwin at the back of the paper at one point as well, and Temple tried to keep things entertaining at the Rocky, and it was an entertaining newspaper. I think he made that decision partially because he wanted to keep the Rocky credible. He also thought people would find Littwin on the back page, which is admittedly better than the back page of Denver and the West.
In any case, I questioned Temple’s decision then, and I don’t think it’s obviously right to bury your best writer. A lot of decisions are really hard in the industry, obviously, but while I agree that entertainment is important, in the end I think that newspapers should feature their news, and make it entertaining with good storytelling etc, and hope that in the long term people will pay for credible information.
Littwin explains things, it’s true. And you know, Carroll and Harsanyi are petty good conservative columists, I think. Not writers like Littwin, but how many of those are there in the world? If you feature those guys, you distract people from the news and information, including explanation, that will carry the day for journalism if it continues to exist in the future.
He does strike me as an editorialist, though.