Idle Chatter: Battle of the Titans, End of Mass Media

Rupert Murdoch discusses how the Wall Street Journal will compete with the New York Times. [NYO]

Jack Shafer thinks Michael Crichton might have been right about the end of mass media. [Slate]

If New York Times columnist Frank Rich can do it: Former Details and Star editor in chief Joe Dolce and former MSNBC editorial director Davidson Goldin have formed DolceGoldin, a "media strategy firm." James Frey, who introduced them, is their first client. [WWD]

The Carrie Bradshaw/Emily Gould backlash is basically symptomatic of a "severely limited number of spaces for women's writing voices," says a woman writer. "More annoying -- and twisted -- is that those meager spots for women are consistently filled by those willing to expose themselves, visually and emotionally." [Salon] via [Mediabistro]

by George Quraishi

(Jeff Bercovici is on vacation.)