{"id":2197,"date":"2005-04-28T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-28T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2197"},"modified":"2018-06-29T09:55:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T14:55:57","slug":"2197","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/28\/2197\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Some dude in the <i>LA Times<\/i> thinks Google <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-martinez27apr27,0,5499637.column?coll=la-news-comment-opinions\" target=\"_new\">should buy a newspaper<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s only a matter of time before a Yahoo or a Google decides to buy an old media company in order to differentiate itself by offering high-quality, proprietary news. Or a company like Amazon could buy a prestigious newspaper publisher and reinvent itself as a portal, leapfrogging over those that treat news updates as a commodity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mickey Kaus <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2117320\/&#038;#martinez\" target=\"_new\"> disagrees<\/a> and lists two good reasons why not, concluding:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ll invest kf&#8217;s retained earnings elsewhere, thank you! <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Professor Bainbridge calls it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.professorbainbridge.com\/2005\/04\/a_provocative_b.html\" target=\"_new\">a provocative business plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have one word for them:<\/p>\n<p><b>AOLTimeWarner<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some dude in the LA Times thinks Google should buy a newspaper: It&#8217;s only a matter of time before a Yahoo or a Google decides to buy an old media company in order to differentiate itself by offering high-quality, proprietary news. Or a company like Amazon could buy a prestigious newspaper publisher and reinvent itself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20251,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions\/20251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}