Comments on: Daily Show Rips The New York Times

By: The Onion Beats Investigative Journalism On Google News | Techdare

The Onion Beats Investigative Journalism On Google News | Techdare — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:20:10 +0000

[...] just too bad Google News isn’t linking to the Daily Show [...]

By: The Onion Beats Investigative Journalism On Google News | Spin Valley Post

The Onion Beats Investigative Journalism On Google News | Spin Valley Post — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:32:11 +0000

[...] just too bad Google News isn’t linking to the Daily Show [...]

By: The Onion Beats Investigative Journalism On Google News | UpOff.com

The Onion Beats Investigative Journalism On Google News | UpOff.com — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:29:16 +0000

[...] just too bad Google News isn’t linking to the Daily Show [...]

By: Axonn

Axonn — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:56:12 +0000

Just to say: thank you for not forgetting the non-US people.

Oldthinker like the New York Times (and French media who hates new medias) never remind that the web has few boundaries.

By: thom singer

thom singer — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:52:30 +0000

What caused the Gray Lady to allow the Daily Show into the paper to do an interview. Did they not realize that by the nature of the venue they would come off looking silly. They had to be in on the joke, the assistant editor who had the discussion with Jason about “Aged News” had to be in on the joke …. nobody could have come off that rediculous.

By: Jess

Jess — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:12:59 +0000

thanks for the shoutout to those of us living abroad!

By: Pete Austin

Pete Austin — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:29:03 +0000

Thanks for the Comedy Central link!

If you have to post content that only some people will see properly – wouldn’t the best thing be to do it, but include a warning in the subject?

For example “Daily Show Rips The New York Times (Hulu)” or “Great new game (requires Silverlight)”

By: Brill

Brill — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:27:12 +0000

Hulu is annoying for us Canadians… I really wish TechCrunch would stop linking them.

However, the daily show is availible to Canadians via:
http://www.thec...s.aspx?sid=3350

By: Paramendra Kumar Bhagat

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:24:07 +0000

I find this “coverage” ironic because I am deep into Web 2.0, a big believer, and NYT is one of my favorite news destinations online. NYT need not, should not die. It just needs to go completely online. Put all your archives online. Cover news to be published immediately. 100% ad model. Encourage others to link to your articles. Dominate the search engine results. Go multi-media. Get the top, lone, super niche bloggers to contribute on a per post, for pay basis. Even more important, have a thriving comments section. Readers don’t want to just read. Stop calling them readers. That is so yesterday. Call them consumers cum contributors. Become a megasite that is megainteractive. Appoint a CTO. Don’t die. Reinvent yourself. News is more important than ever in this new age. But the old medium has become indefensible. Face the reality and live, thrive.

By: mlstotts

mlstotts — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:09:35 +0000

I’m going out on a limb here and saying “news” is a service industry and many service industries, not just newspapers, will suffer from their over-dependence or over-exposure to overhead. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of our lives. Even TechCrunch will rue the day it paid for office space and installed everyone in cubes.

By: jdu

jdu — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:26:22 +0000

You tell them! I hate it when TC write articles pertaining to a parish.

By: e40

e40 — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:22:10 +0000

Ya know, I signed up for that web program that the NYT started a couple of years ago. I paid them something like $7 or $9/mo. I didn’t really go to their site any more than usual (after paying them), I just wanted them to have money to continue investigative journalism. What did they do? They stopped the program and stopped taking my money.

I’m still scratching my head over that one.

By: steve

steve — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:24:27 +0000

Please tell me you’re not taking the interview at face value. Yes, it was funny. But they often use this modern technique called editing to make it look like someone was totally befuddled by a simple question. Maybe he was, but it’s not that straight forward. It’s the freakin’ Daily Show.

By: Charles

Charles — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:53:50 +0000

Hulu can not be shown outside the USA dumb move posting Hulu for international viewers also real Dumb that Hulu and other media groups don’t care about the millions of Americans overseas

By: XiXiDu

XiXiDu — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:24:16 +0000

If TechCrunch wants to be U.S. only I should just unsubscribe your feed. If not, then don’t support services that make use of geo-restrictions…

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:55:59 +0000

well, remember that the Daily Show gets to edit and produce the segment as well, making themselves look even more in control. No way I’d have let them in our offices if I was the NY Times.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:54:36 +0000

so we should go out of our way to kill more trees? that doesn’t seem like it will fix anything.

By: Ryan N

Ryan N — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:24:25 +0000

Can we get a Canadian link. Hulu and Comedy Central videos are both blocked in Canada

By: Derek Quenneville

Derek Quenneville — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:20:43 +0000

I share your frustration, but your decision to make a video saying that you can’t see the video is a little weird!

I wouldn’t mind Comedy Central blocking Canada so much if the redirect notice actually went to the equivalent video on The Comedy Network. :/

By: Dog

Dog — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:51:44 +0000

It’s the content sir. Presenting editorial material as fact, misreprestning or intentionally omitting relevant facts, etc. The Old Gray Lady hasn’t been a trusted source for some time.

Check out how they handled the Duke lacrosse hoax. Pitiful.

The lack of trust ran off readers, ad revenues fall and they continue to disenfranchise at least one-half of their readers. The critical thinking one.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:50:58 +0000

I don’t particularly see a ‘problem’ with linking to American video sites, but it can be a little frustrating to us in other countries.

If the title were prefixed “US Only:” I’d have just skipped over it, instead of clicking though to the site, clicking the flash icon (I use flashblock to block pre-loading videos) and then waiting only to be told I wasn’t allowed.

“but I don’t get all bent out of shape when I read a .uk news site and can’t access the BBC videos they link to.”

Well it depends if Techcrunch wants to be a US website or an international website. If a UK website was by UK people for UK people then you’d forgive them many BBC links. If they said they wanted to be a UK-based international website but kept linking to BBC Iplayer you’d eventually think “well you don’t really want me do you” and go elsewhere.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:31:55 +0000

So, in order to help the (dying) industry, why don’t you all once a week and one day on the weekend, just get off your fat arses and go away from your computer terminal, down to the newsagents and instead of complaining about it on all these chat boards, just fucking go out and do something worthwhile. BUY A NEWSPAPER !?!?

For reporting of events, you can’t beat the electronic media formats, but this can also apply to television media as well.

As an editorial and analysis tool, and more importantly (whether these publications exist on the web or not) is a good example of an ARCHIVE of what the news was that day, from various perspectives, because the websites aint gonna be so prodigious in doing that.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:28:31 +0000

But Michael, would you write occasional posts that can only be viewed in IE, and everyone else gets a “sorry, you should use IE” screen? That would be preferable to Hulu, which tells us “sorry, you should move to the US!”

If these videos are just “asides” and not really newsworthy, then should they be posted at all?

Love the site, keep it comin!

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:22:13 +0000

it’s just a black box??

By: Jimmy Little

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:21:24 +0000

Um, I don’t want to be insensitive to the rest of the world, but TechCrunch.com is an American company, with mostly American writers. What’s the problem with linking to American video sites? I realize the internet is a international venue for information, but I don’t get all bent out of shape when I read a .uk news site and can’t access the BBC videos they link to.