Ken Doctor's new book published Tuesday, "
Newsonomics: Twelve New Trends That Will Shape the News You Get," sounds as if it is going to be a treatise, but it's not. Sure, there is plenty of solid analysis, but "Newsonomics" reads more like a series of battlefield dispatches from the hunkered down camp of beleaguered old media and the loosely organized fronts opened by new media insurgents.
And Doctor is a virtual Christiane Amanpour of the news wars -- quick-moving, observant, solid in his interpretations and engaged without being a cranky partisan.
That said, Doctor delivers the book I would have expected, given his balanced perspective and consistently rewarding
Content Bridges blog. Here are three things I like about the book...