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The Online Journalism Review has a commentary on What the Pulitzers Missed: What makes a Newspaper a Newspaper? They question why online news publications were not allowed to submit their work for consideration. The Pulitzer bias is clear: printed format is required. It matters not that the content of an electronic publication may be of (gasp!) higher quality than that of smudgeable newsprint which can be used to line the bird cage. What will it take for the Pulitzer administrators to consider online-only entries? Will printed newspapers and books have to go completely away? When will the web be taken seriously as a publication medium? It is already the primary news source for multitudes of people.

Written by ltao

April 21st, 2000 at 3:51 am

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