This is the latest chapter in the seemingly endless soap opera which is the newspaper industry’s effort to develop a new business model. Alan Mutter really knows the industry, and we take his observations very seriously.

Pay walls never may come at some papers
The resolve to charge for most interactive content is dissolving at some [...]

By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable
The FCC should not turn its quadrennial media ownership rule review into a referendum on the state of the media marketplace in general, said Media Access Project President Andrew Schwartzman. The president made his remarks at an FCC media ownership workshop Tuesday featuring a panel of public interest group representatives.
Broadcasters [...]

Google goofed, and in the process revealed some very interesting information about the present and future scale of its potentially disruptive Google Voice product. Business Week noticed that Google improperly attempted to redact this data, and produced this revealing article.
How Google Voice Is Growing
In response to questions by U.S. regulators, Google (GOOG) handed over [...]

FCC shouldn’t give free pass based on economic distress, consolidation critics say
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable
The broadcasting industry isn’t in such bad shape, a majority of public interest group representatives argued Tuesday on their way to making the point that the FCC should not loosen its ownership rules as a way to “prop up” [...]

This story in today’s New York Times should remind us that the experts aren’t always right in predicting the impact of new technologies. It turns out that DVR’s are better for traditional TV than most people have assumed.
TV Finds That Mortal Foe, DVR, Is a Friend After All
In what may seem a media business [...]