New York Sun
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette executive editor
David Shribman says the ASNE convention was "one of the biggest downers of the calendar, taking on the gloomy, doomed air of a gathering of blacksmiths exactly a century ago, when Henry Ford's Model N roadster went on sale for $500. ...We should have the maturity to greet the difficulties in our business with perspective and regard them not as a death knell but as the challenge that brought us into this field in the first place."
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"It worries me that the two [ASNE convention] speakers who made the most sense were a guy who sells coffee and an editor who is no longer in the newsroom," says
Ryan Blethen.
(Seattle Times)
