As many as 80 rivals to the iPad are expected to debut over the next few days at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Until Apple sold millions of iPads, the devices were best known for failing in the marketplace. But New York Times business columnist and culture reporter David Carr says that this new wave of touch-screen tablets, led by the iPad, restore the pleasure of reading and are now the reliable wingmen to long-form journalism.
 | Could iPad Apps Save Our "Papers?" Audio Embed: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now 1/5/11, Host: Robin Young. |
My friend, former San Diego broadcaster, Jeff Prescott is an avid reader of out of town papers, which until recently arrived late and, once read, piled up in his garage... He's an apps fan now:
"Presently I'm a daily reader of the London Times, London Sun, NY Post and NY Daily News. 2 are facsimiles of the printed paper and 2 are in newspaper 'style.' The London papers are available around 8pm Pacific Time. The London Times pictures and video are unreal. Its like the paper is now in HD. All are easy to read. It's very cool."When "The Daily," Rupert Murdoch's new iPad-only edition, debuts later this month Jeff will add that one, too.
In 1973, as CBS Radio cloned its successful New York "news radio" format in Boston, a manager went through the property and removed all the tape cartridges that could hold audio longer than 70 seconds... So although the company intended to fill the air with news, it had no use for length or taking the time to explain complexity.
There would be lots of short stories... Coverage would be wide but not deep.
The Onion suggested the 24-hour news cycle seemed glacially slow and recently the Boston Globe's Craig Fehrman chronicled the media's march toward speaking in bumper stickers, miniaturized single-phrase political discourse, in an article that NPR reduced to 2:53.
 | The Incredible Shrinking Sound Bite Audio Embed: Morning Edition 1/5/11, Hosts: Renee Montagne and Steve Inskeep. |
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