Comments on: What Do European Newsies Know That American Ones Don’t? http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/04/10/what-do-european-newsies-know-that-american-ones-dont/ Thoughts on Web 2.0, Social Media, Marketing. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:17:06 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: marcel weiss http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/04/10/what-do-european-newsies-know-that-american-ones-dont/comment-page-1/#comment-27423 marcel weiss Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:57:13 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/04/10/what-do-european-newsies-know-that-american-ones-dont/#comment-27423 First: there is no such thing as 'european newspaper folks'. People are different. Even within nations and, yes, even within the different publications in one nation. Regarding Europe, well I don't know about the other nations but in Germany most of the print newspapers folks are so clueless it hurts. You hardly read anything about blogs in the newspapers. And if you do they get as much facts wrong as possible. More than just one time german journalists managed to get confused with the pi/day numbers and said these numbers are pi/month. Making a simple to catch mistake by the factor of 30, that's just ridiculous (you can read it in german here: http://www.stefan-niggemeier.de/blog/wiederholungstaeter-iii/ ). Now you know what these guys know about t'internet. Online presences of german newspapers are pretty bad too. Most of them don't seem to take the internet too serious. You see, at least in germany most of them are pretty clueless. I follow the discussions in the englishspeakin blogosphere for quite some time now and I read about the US-Newspapers now and then and I can tell you what us-newspapers are doing right now is at least 2+ years ahead of there germany is. The next years are really going to hurt em. First: there is no such thing as ‘european newspaper folks’. People are different. Even within nations and, yes, even within the different publications in one nation. Regarding Europe, well I don’t know about the other nations but in Germany most of the print newspapers folks are so clueless it hurts. You hardly read anything about blogs in the newspapers. And if you do they get as much facts wrong as possible. More than just one time german journalists managed to get confused with the pi/day numbers and said these numbers are pi/month. Making a simple to catch mistake by the factor of 30, that’s just ridiculous (you can read it in german here: http://www.stefan-niggemeier.de/blog/wiederholungstaeter-iii/ ). Now you know what these guys know about t’internet. Online presences of german newspapers are pretty bad too. Most of them don’t seem to take the internet too serious.

You see, at least in germany most of them are pretty clueless.

I follow the discussions in the englishspeakin blogosphere for quite some time now and I read about the US-Newspapers now and then and I can tell you what us-newspapers are doing right now is at least 2+ years ahead of there germany is. The next years are really going to hurt em.

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