FC: Industry Standard's Media Grok says goodbye to its readers

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

The farewell notice is archived here:
http://guterman.com/guterman_mediagrok/guterman_mediagrok.html

Editor and Publisher article on newspaper websites:wm
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/features_columns/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1061806

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From: "Patrick McCormick" <pmccormi () mit edu>
To: <declan () well com>
Subject: Fw: MEDIA GROK: Goodbye ... Really
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:53:22 -0700

I think they're actually shutting down this time.  The Media Grok was the
only tech-industry-news analysis daily that I know of, and I will certainly
miss it.

For my daily media analysis fix I now go to Jim Romensko's
http://www.poynter.org/medianews/

cheers,
Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: "The Industry Standard" <TheStandard () boing email-publisher com>
To: <pmccormi () mit edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 5:44 AM
Subject: MEDIA GROK: Goodbye ... Really


> =====================================================================
>                         THE INDUSTRY STANDARD'S
>                           M E D I A  G R O K
>                   What the Press Is Reporting and Why
> =====================================================================
>
> Wednesday, September 26, 2001
>
> TOP GROK:
> * Goodbye ... Really
>
> TOP GROK
> ~~~~~~~~
> Goodbye ... Really
>
> It might be exciting to have a lover who says goodbye, disappears for
> several weeks, returns without any promises, and then disappears
> again. But an e-mail newsletter that engages in the same sort of
> behavior would be merely annoying. We don't want to annoy you any more
> than we have already, so you're reading the final Media Grok.
>
> When Media Grok went away in late August and reappeared in early
> September, many of you (OK, it was 3,801 of you) wrote to me, and all
> but three notes were supportive. Some of you (687, precisely) wrote
> that you'd be willing to pay for Media Grok if the advertising climate
> remained frosty, but a smaller number of you (well, 0, to be exact)
> actually sent me any money. If each Media Grok subscriber had sent me
> a $10 bill, I could have outbid IDG in the bankruptcy auction, and ...
>
> The members of Media Grok will continue writing and editing all over
> the place. If you send an e-mail to mediagrok () guterman com, we'll keep
> you posted on our whereabouts and whether anyone has coaxed us to put
> the band back together. But don't order any "Media Grok Reunion Tour"
> T-shirts just yet. - Jimmy Guterman
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> STAFF
> ~~~~~
> Written by Deborah Asbrand (dasbrand () world std com), Michaela
> Cavallaro (mcavalla () maine rr com), Keith Dawson (dawson () world std com),
> Jen Muehlbauer (jen () englishmajor com) and David Sims
> (davesims () sonic net).
>
> Copyedited and produced by Jim Duffy (jimduffy86 () yahoo com).
>
> Edited by Jimmy Guterman (guterman () vineyard com).
>
> Media Grok has been produced by The Vineyard Group Inc., for Standard
Media
> International. For more information on the future of Media Grok and its
staff, please visit
> http://guterman.com.

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From: "Patrick McCormick" <pmccormi () mit edu>
To: <declan () well com>
Subject: Re: MEDIA GROK: Goodbye ... Really
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:00:53 -0700

> For my daily media analysis fix I now go to Jim Romensko's
> http://www.poynter.org/medianews/.

I should say "media news" not "media analysis".  I haven't found anything
that quite replaces Media Grok for actual analysis.

cheers,
Patrick




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