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Blogging Old Media KILLS! [Clay Felker]

valleywag.com » 2008 » July » 3rd » Blogging Old Media KILLS! [Clay Felker]

Tagged: media, obituary, clay felker

Forty years before Valleywag, a middle-aged man named Clay Felker took over a newspaper supplement and turned it into New York magazine, deliberately breaking the rules in order to bring back readers who were abandoning reading to watch more TV. Felker died Tuesday at age 82. The New York Times obituary — I'm sure they've been lovingly crafting it for years — is that rare article worth reading … Continue Reading »

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