This will likely be my last word on the Connie Schultz-Plain Dealer proposal to gut fair use doctrine and the First Amendment in order to save their own jobs.  It's plain to me their effort won't make it past their ...Read More

Travel with me, if you will, to Planet PD - the world where Connie Schultz's employer gets every single thing she advocated to her US Senator husband in her Sunday column. To get to this universe, you have to assume that ...Read More

Jeff Jarvis smells the plainly obvious rat. First note well that Schultz is married to U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown as she calls on her newspapers and employer (my former employer, Advance Publications) and fellow columnists to influence Congress to remake copyright. ...Read More

The PD is on six month death watch, a period set by Connie Schultz herself. That is six months from now, which is a lifetime in an industry that, in the last six months, has slashed thousands of salaries and jobs. ...Read More