Why The "6PM NY Times News" Will Never Happen.

[theguiterrorist]

I was bungling around and stumbled upon a post on Dallas Mavericks' owner Mark Cuban's blog that advocates the "convergence" or collaboration of print, internet, and broadcast TV news media:

Riddle me this Batman: Rupert Murdoch has figured out that Print and TV can be combined to be a vertical news organization and is willing to pay 5 billion

Comments

[pfhranzilicious]

Maybe it's a good thing print and television news is kept separate. It takes an entity of gargantuan properties to control it all, and somewhere along the lines bias always shows up, but then it would apply to such a large share of the media. There's something thats a little sketchy about a news juggernaut.

[theguiterrorist]

There are things TV can do that print can't, and vice versa. This isn't to say that Cuban's idea of integrating print and video content together is a bad one -- it isn't, but it can flourish on the Internet. Merging forces along the lines of CBS/NYT or NBC/WashPost in the manner he describes would result in a clusterfuck over whose job is what.

Co-ops already exist to an extent -- NBC's online content with Newsweek and the Washington Post being a good example, but the formats do different things.

The juggernaut is always scary. We talk a lot of crap about Fox News for a reason.

[dogofthefuture]

People you know immediately you don't have to take seriously: Anyone who starts off with a rhetorical question preceded by "Riddle me this, Batman."