In an effort to band together with all the crazy rich motherfuckers whose hubris was so gargantuan that they thought they could save print and are subsequently now scared shitless that they’re going to lose their papers, their summer homes and their Mexicans, Brian Tierney has recently joined in with his brethren to spread the word that print is not dead and get the troops all psyched up to fight the battle/win the war. How are they doing it? A BLOG, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Sorry. But yes: They’re doing it with a blog. Wing on over to NewspaperProject.org, and you’ll see lots of rah-rah-rah-siss-boom-bah from people all over the country who are every bit as fucked as Tierney and Co. are. (Favorite post so far: “I’m Reading Newspapers Again” by Roger Ebert.) Thus far, Tierney has only penned one post in the last month and a half, which mimics the philly.com blogging work ethic perfectly. And don’t get us wrong: We want real reporting to survive, and we love the physical act of reading a newspaper. But as Content Bridges noted, Tierney and the gang miss the point over and over again that while they may need to reinvent the wheel in terms of the printed product and the union structure that hinders it, the real issue is how to find funds to float reporting that is real, relevant, engaging and on-time. Until the gang wakes up and really brings out the hatchet, you and I know what everyone at Broad & Whatever is too scared and ashamed to admit: Brian Tierney’s greatest sin was not trying to save this city’s papers — it was paying $515 million for the domain name “Philly.com.”

Previously: Talk The Talk: Steve Volk

This entry was posted on Thursday, February 5th, 2009 at 12:54 pm.