2009 Cover of the Year

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.
Garrison Keillor

ASME cover of the year is…

http://www.magazine.org/

I think they missed:

Of course it is a newspaper and newspapers are in a bit of trouble.  By July of 2009:

105 newspapers shut.

10,000 newspaper jobs were lost.

Print ad sales fell 30% in Q1 '09.

23 of the top 25 newspapers circulation declined by 7% to 20%

If Jim made it to here, and for those interested in Journalism, check out this Link:

http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/

There was nothing [in these newspapers] of remote interest [to] just about any sentient being. But that’s not what the paper’s editors were aiming for. The point is that there was nothing there that could possibly offend anyone.

Bill Wyman’s essay on Five Key Reasons Why Newspapers Are Failing

You may want to start the year off learning new skills.  Why not start with McSweeney’s?

ENG 371WR:
Writing for Nonreaders in the Postprint Era
M-W-F: 11:00 a.m.—12:15 p.m.
Instructor: Robert Lanham

Advanced Tweeting: The Elements of Droll

Required Reading Materials

Literary works, including the online table of contents of the Huffington Post's Complete Guide to Blogging, will serve as models to be skimmed for thorough analysis. Also, Perez Hilton's Twitter feed.

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/20lanham.html