Lileks on location and dislocation
"The Boston Globe sent so many people I think the reporter-reader ratio is close to 1:1, which makes for personal service but gets expensive, eventually." James Lileks: "The Future, Today". Meanwhile, "In a bombshell announcement in the world of sports journalism, star columnist Jay Mariotti has abruptly resigned from the Chicago Sun-Times." Why? Well, it's all about location and dislocation today, and newspapers are, um, you know caught in the reporter-reader ratio thing.
