New York Magazine
"At their best, the newspapers' online videos are, minute for minute, superior to TV news," says
Kurt Andersen. "Given the dumb-and-dumber choices, I can easily imagine newspapers' Web-video portals becoming the TV-journalism destinations of choice for smart people -- that is, in the 21st century, the dominant nineteenth-century journalistic institution, newspapers, might beat the dominant twentieth-century institution, TV, at the premium part of its own game." Andersen likes
David Carr's videos and says the Timesman (above) "is preternaturally perfect for the web -- a friendly, wisecracking 50-year-old character with a Minnesota rasp, the very opposite of self-serious."
