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iPad News Publication 'The Daily' Now Rumored for Mid-January Launch

SockRolid said:
Steve Jobs and Apple are again proving their mastery of public relations. The entire world's tech media was focused on last January's iPad announcement. And when Steve sat down and demoed iPad for the first time, the world instantly forgot all the half-baked vaporware "slates" that were mashed up for CES. It was as though CES had never happened.

Next month, the tech media will again cover the iPad 2 announcement. The same thing will happen, with one major difference. Once again, all the bogus iPad-wannabes will be forgotten the moment Steve whips out iPad 2. But this time the rest of the world's media will also cover the iPad 2 rollout. Why? Because the Daily will be rolled out at roughly the same time, if not on the same stage. And the Daily represents the future of "professional journalism" and "big publishing" whether it succeeds or fails. Not because of its politics.

If the Daily can make money, we'll see an avalanche of similar iOS apps from all the major media conglomerates. If the Daily fails, then professional print journalism (as a business) is dead, and TV journalism and bloggers have taken over.
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Undoubtedly, the most insightful post in this thread.
 
When it comes to news, I trust twitter these days.

I would rather read macrumors on my ipad.
 
BJMRamage said:
Overall this is a good thing to be brought to the iPad.

Speaking for Fox News or any other news outlet (WORLDWIDE) everyone has a SPIN. Many Americans feel uppity thinking they are “smarter” for watching/listening to the BBC (and the like) but everyone spins things. A documentary is just another one-sided argument with a Director’s take or agenda (most notably Michael Moore’s but even BBC documentaries are easily one-sided).

Plenty of Fox News employees donate to the Right Wing....and plenty of MSNBC and the like donate to the Left Wing.

Watch all with open eyes and you can see where the “NEWS” is more slanted with agendas. Then you can fit the puzzle together with facts. Ignore some news channels and you become ignorant of all facts and stories. Solely watching Fox makes one slanted as does ignoring Fox. If I hear a story that catches my eye/ear then I like to take time to research it to uncover more facts. I hate seeing emails with this or that politically for the past 10 years (that covers two different administrations) and usually stop the email forward or reply with FACTS.
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Hey BJMRamage, I agree that this will likely be a good thing for the iPad and I think tablets in general. Of all the news organizations, I think that FoxNews has embraced new technologies and formats more quickly. If Murdoch can bring that same attitude to The Daily then I think we'll be in for something really cool. I expect us to have moving images sort of like the newspapers in Harry Potter or something else really special.

As far as the whole "spin" thing is concerned, I take some exception. I watch FoxNews, MSNBC, CNN, BBCAmerica and listen to NPR and Patriot (conservative talk) on XM. I agree that there are at times noticably detectable political slants present among each of these outlets but journalists tend to do a pretty good job of keep their personal opinions in check with most of them. Not until FoxNews started stealing away marketshare from MSNBC and CNN with it's right-wing opinion infused news did we see MSNBC, and to a lesser extent CNN, start to do the same. Up to that point I think it can be argued that those news organizations kept both liberal and conversative staff at similar numbers.

So while you're right that all news outlets probably all have some bias, it wasn't until FoxNews came out so blatantly with theirs that we ended up where we are today. I consider myself a moderate. Maybe a little right-leaning. I'm from Texas so I think that's almost a requirement. But even I can tell that FoxNews oversteps the boundaries of unbiased, good journalism all the time. I think that's fine as long as people are educated enough to tell the difference and balance that with other news sources. Like say... MSNBC.
 
SockRolid said:
Next month, the tech media will again cover the iPad 2 announcement.
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Assuming there is an announcement, in the same sense as last year. If they don't change up the 3G or wifi tech in this 2.0 there could be no required FCC review. They always pre announce the iPhone because that review is public info and would leak things anyway. And Jobs hates others being first.

But without that concern, there may be no announcement ahead of time. They may simply step up on the stage, show it and end with "and one more thing, they go on sale this weekend". And if that is the case, we might not have any official news until as late as April. Depending on where they mark the one year
 
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