[Quote of the Day] Why Newspapers are like the Titanic
Posted: October 27, 2009 Filed under: Department of Print | Tags: quote of the day Leave a comment »“The best analogy I can think of is — have you ever heard of the Titanic Fallacy?” he asked. We hadn’t. “What was the critical flaw to the Titanic?” We tried to answer: Poor construction? Not enough life boats? Crashing into stuff? “A captain trying to set a world speed record through an iceberg field?” he said, shaking his head. “Even if the Titanic came in safely to New York Harbor, it was still doomed,” he said. “Twelve years earlier, two brothers invented the airplane.”
~NYT publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. via Mediaite

