A couple of recent articles — Mike Arrington’s Print Media Demise, Cont. and Susan Mernit’s recent blog post, The pile on to declare print (newspapers) dead, reminded me of a story I recently heard from my friend Chandra, who teaches what you might call an “English for business” course at a community college in Toronto.
She posed this question to her class: “Suppose your company was facing some negative publicity in the papers. What would you do?”
Here students that there’d be nothing to worry about. The general gist was that nobody gets their news from newspapers anymore.
She then changed her question slightly. “Okay then,” she said, “what if the bad publicity came from blogs?”
The response this time was different. Bad press in the blogosphere? Okay, now you’ve given us something to worry about.