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 ********* From: "Patrick McCormick" <pmccormiat_private> To: <declanat_private> 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" <TheStandardat_private-publisher.com> To: <pmccormiat_private> 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 mediagrokat_private, 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 (dasbrandat_private), Michaela > Cavallaro (mcavallaat_private), Keith Dawson (dawsonat_private), > Jen Muehlbauer (jenat_private) and David Sims > (davesimsat_private). > > Copyedited and produced by Jim Duffy (jimduffy86at_private). > > Edited by Jimmy Guterman (gutermanat_private). > > 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. ********* From: "Patrick McCormick" <pmccormiat_private> To: <declanat_private> 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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