Newspapers Need to Transform / On Dow Jones Exec Describes Google As "Digital Vampire"

We've not taken a daily or weekly paper for years. A lot of news we didn't want [unfiltered to our need, and depressing otherwise]. That was before Google or MSN or whatever.

Newspapers used to be fast, because mail took months then weeks and no one had radio or TV.

Well, they're not so fast and you have to go get it or wait for it to be delivered, tomorrow. With old news.

Newspapers should be the novels of news now. In depth materials that get and give all the multiple layers of detail that online headlines can't. I glance the online headlines and often don't read the details, and when I do, it's often cloned from something I've already read.

Details, newspapers, in depth. In fact, change your name, make a new face and reality of what you are. People buy the special editions of all Obama, or all Michael Jackson, or all the next "wedding of the century" be somewhere between the online headlines with little substance and the glitz photos and no substance of LIFE, US, People, TMZ.

Neale Sourna
www.PIE-Percept.com

On Obama US Election Night '08

On November 5th, 2008, just after midnight and Barack Obama's speech began and he accepted his win, Americans and the world exhaled, as he took over with quiet, relaxed energy, respect, and centeredness.

On Michelle Obama's dress that night, red and black, it was beautiful and appropriate and a new way of seeing a First Lady Elect; and it was the way I'd seen her anyway, with energy bold as that red color--generative and full of heart. The other team was exhausted in that respect.