What journalists are talking about this morning
- Journalists are addicted to social media & it’s hurting journalism (Craig Kanalley/HuffPost)
- In related news, nail biting is now a pathological disorder (NPR)
- Dean Starkman argues (again) that paywalls incentivize quality while free digital content incentivizes quantity; Journal Register CEO John Paton responds in the comments (Columbia Journalism Review)
What journalists stopped talking about days ago
- Jim Lehrer’s defense of his debate performance: “I can’t imagine emerging from this experience — I’m talking about myself — with any permanent scars,” the PBS executive editor told the AP’s David Bauder. “I’m very upbeat about it, and I don’t have any second thoughts.”
What the rest of America is talking about
- Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to people we don’t know for science we don’t understand (NPR)
- Jerry Sandusky to be sentenced today for serial sexual abuse (Reuters)
- Those presidential poll numbers (Nate Silver/The New York Times)
