http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95285396

I only buy a paper if I want to look at the adverts – very rarely.

I only read a physical newspaper on a plane now and that's because it's free.

I suspect it is the prefered methodology of the West to stand aside and let this sort of thing happen

It worked in the building of America so I guess it's tried and true.

Winning in Afghanistan is an attempt to find a way to break the cycle, but maybe…

Speaking of technology, I wonder why papers are printed at all anymore.

Your solution sounds a lot like RSS feeds.

I only buy a paper if I want to look at the adverts – very rarely.

Otherwise I pick up the stuff sports feed, national news, public address etc.

Printing…

And having become involved, we have a national conspiracy amongst ourselves not to mention the war in the hope Al Qaeda won't find out and will leave us alone.

Oh, I think AQ are quite happy with the current state of play in Afghanistan. Tying down the US in a…

Right now, Bosnia is the more successful of the two interventions despite a horrible beginning. One of the problems in Afghanistan is that for many the end result is little better than the problem.

Indeed ethnic cleansing with a hint of genocide as practiced in the Balkans was good methodology…

That may sound glib but that is all there is to it. Newspapers offer advertisers exposure, because enough people are still buying papers. So advertisers spend money, which keeps the newspapers in business.

The print on demand idea…

Speaking of technology, I wonder why papers are printed at all anymore.

I assume that despite their enormous upfront cost, the big presses have enormously low running costs (both in terms of paper and ink). I'm not sure that you can easily downscale that to a kiosk. It's one thing…

http://www.serbianna.com/columns/savich/063.shtml

Yes Simon both were dirty wars that involved massacres of civillians as a norm rather than an exception.

I'm just not sure how telling one side that their bloodletting is better than the other's is better than Bosnia. They may have taken a hell of long time to do anything…

We, if we means the west, decided to turn a blind eye to those. It was no better than the Bosnian situation.

Yes Simon both were dirty wars that involved massacres of civillians as a norm rather than an exception. In Bosnia the West sent troops to not take sides,…

We could have adopted the Bosnian approach and stood by whilst these persecutions took place, but decided not.

Actually Angus if you read a little history the United Islamic Front had their own wee track record of mass killings and blood letting. We, if we means the west, decided to…

http://www.95bfm.com/assets/sm/189471/3/drjohnsweeney.mp3

Re alternatives to newspaper monopolies: this site was mentioned on national radio yesterday

http://spot.us/

Bosnia was an international intervention in a civil war. We entered it in 1992 by providing 9 UN military observers after a peace agreement had been signed between Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Muslims.

If we had decided the massacre at Srebrenica and generalised ethnic cleansing were a problem then we…

Journalistic spadework is a skilled job that requires leaving your desk. That does need funding.

There, that's sorted.

How does "Pundit" fit in the scheme?

While some pieces on Pundit are definitely fact rich and deserve to be called news journalism, what I have in mind would be focussed on longer-form writing that was not merely an extended op-ed. Pundit has some good stuff, but I don't see…

We were in Iraq and even came under motar fire, but never let the facts get in the way of an election.

How does "Pundit" fit in the scheme?t

I think it was Chase me, ladies, I'm in the cavalry who said:
Can anyone think of a blogger who calls themselves "anything-pundit" who isn't a staggeringly hateful arse?

Hope that helps.

(establishing a non-profit org to fund journalism)

Here's an example.

I wish we had a "vanity" paper like the Independent, as opposed to National party pamphlets.

We have canvassed a similar idea in this forum before (establishing a non-profit org to fund journalism).

If nobody else steps up, organising it might become my project for next year.

I wish we had a "vanity" paper like the Independent, as opposed to National party pamphlets.

It would be rather nice if Auckland could sustain seven daily newspapers, but I don't see it happening any time soon. And, Rich, I still don't see any future Labour-lead government being in any…

Please allow me to add my name to your previous correspondence, and any future correspondence on this subject.

Regards
Paul

Piss off
Stronger letter follows

Regards
Mark

We know this is true because Prime Minister Helen Clark said it. So any critical analysis of New Zealand's involvement in…

Bosnia was an international intervention in a civil war. We entered it in 1992 by providing 9 UN military observers after a peace agreement had been signed between Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Muslims. We comitted 250 troops to Bosnia in 1994 after a flare-up in…

I wonder if there's a long term future for daily papers in NZ. They keep going mostly because they have a monopoly in each market and can sell lots of advertising. Trademe is eroding…

A lot of the time they were wearing Blue Hats, though weren't they? Maybe it doesn't count...

Is this a new rule? Cool... I'm not really 40... I was wearing a blue hat for some* of the time....

* Unfortunately, not enough of the time... I'm probably still way over…

So do you have any idea why this war is so unreported?

An extension of what Craig says – there are bugger all networks local to in Afghanistan. Our press is good at covering events that occur in the West – fashion shows, celeb weddings, sports and the financials. For…

Our forces were in Bosnia for 12 years on a formal basis

A lot of the time they were wearing Blue Hats, though weren't they? Maybe it doesn't count...

since 1953

Too quick... I see that this deployment is not continuous

Our forces were in Bosnia for 12 years on a formal basis and 15 years all-up.

Three New Zealand Defence Force officers are involved in border observations in the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea. And NZ has been represented there since 1953. That is an all out war…

So do you have any idea why this war is so unreported?

I've got a theory: Hard to get to, often genuinely dangerous, and much more expensive and resource-intensive to cover in depth than a live cross to some Sydney-side tele-bimbo burbling inanities at the première of Baz Luhrmann's new…

But as a bald statement, it's wrong. Sorry.

Perhaps it's a little too metaphysical for a Media7, but why is sorry (and 'we got the wrong') the hardest word to say in the media? I don't know about anyone else, but the reputations of Deborah Coddington and North and South…