http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2012/06/17/an-interview-with-howard-beck-of-the-new-york-times/ Sports, Media, Entertainment Thu, 23 May 2013 04:06:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2012/06/17/an-interview-with-howard-beck-of-the-new-york-times/comment-page-1/#comment-1694072 Mr. Supersonic Mon, 18 Jun 2012 03:23:26 +0000 http://thebiglead.com/?p=190248#comment-1694072 Howard Beck’s take on Twitter is ideal for a media member. The problem is that the basis for his mentality is nowhere near universal: “I’d rather focus on crafting a compelling story for the hundreds of thousands who buy the Times or read it online than waste time tweeting random observations that just a few thousand people might see.” Many bloggers or lower-profile writers (basically anyone not affiliated with NYT or ESPN) see Twitter as both their “primary news feed,” as Beck admits, and as a way to pump up their readership. Sadly, Twitter does not cater to thoroughly masticated and digested ideas, it caters to ideas which are the equivalent of a wine-tasting…sip and spit. Except that in the land of bad NBA writers, someone else then sips your regurgitated swill and spits it back out, and the cycle is repeated until we’re all nauseous. Fortunately, we readers can at least be drunk. *my name is Ryan Knaus, and I support this message.

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