“It’s not just disaffected Newsweek vets doing the grumbling, either. The novelist Tobias Wolff was asked to write a story for the magazine. But Brown published a similar piece by Jonathan Chait instead and offered to run Wolff’s online. “I wouldn’t have worked so long and hard on something” for it to run only on The Daily Beast, says Wolff.”

—Newsroom Roil Is Tina’s Beast of Burden | Adweek

I have a tremendous amount of respect for Tobias Wolff, but, really? Why not? That piece would likely see more readership online at the Daily Beast than it would in print Newsweek (not an indictment of print; the Web is simply wider venue).

Audience aside, why would you give less effort for something that’s going to have your name on it just because it appears on what you consider to be an inferior medium?

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  4. choire said: Old people are old.
  5. emilygould said: It’s not so much that the medium is “inferior,” it’s that it’s different — and one writes differently for an online audience than for a print audience, taking the medium’s potential and limitations into account. I find this beef legit.
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