More Bad News for Mainstream Media
Newsweek will be up for sale.
Month: May 2010
John C. Avise has a new paper, basically summarizing the more detailed points of his book, Inside the Human Genome, that will no doubt be keeping some of the folks in Seattle busy. I’ve been in contact with Avise, hoping to do a review and interview about it, for this blog if not another journal.
Digital Rights and Authors
Steve Wasserman in a follow-up segment at Mediabistro discusses whether authors should worry about the challenges facing the publishing industry by digital delivery. (It’s safe to say he won’t be running out to buy an iPad anytome soon.)
Budget Crisis
Arnold Kling does the historical break down. In any event, in a non-recessionary economy, the federal government’s ratio of revenue to GDP is generally around 20 percent. While a $1 trillion primary deficit represents less than 7 percent of GDP, it represents about 30 percent of full-employment revenues. Eliminating a primary deficit of that magnitude… Continue reading Budget Crisis
Steve Wasserman is an agent working with Jill Kneerim and Ike Williams. Here he is discussing how he got started. Interesting that it was through Christopher Hitchens.