The Nation completed its metamorphorsis to a daily business report by diverting its news section to its online reincarnation XPRESS. See http://www.dailyxpress.net/
Online news publications are a desperate act for newspapers whose readership has deteriorated under the assault of TV’s 24/7 information cycle and the shorter attention spans of modern life.
Elections?
Who cares?
Bombs in the south.
Who cares Part 2?
Thaksin’s mistress on the cover.
http://www.dailyxpress.net/2008/03/03/personality/personality_259.php
“When I am with Thaksin, I can express myself better,” the singer Lydia says proudly with tears in her eyes.
Now that’s journalism, but will Xpress replace the newspaper?
As some wit once said about TV, “Try swatting a fly with it.”
Or wrapping fish.
One more thing their featuring an article about Lydia’s new CD in the FUN section of XPRESS this Sunday.
Oh joy.
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