People who had a way with words in the news last week:
“This is like Christmas morning.”
— Jim Irwin, master developer of the foundries district around Erlanger Park, describing his feeling standing behind the gates as the ballpark opened to the public.
“Many papers made a fatal mistake in the ’90s that they’re still paying for — giving the news away online for free. The idea was that the page views would turn into digital advertising gold. They didn’t. Instead, what happened is we trained an entire generation to believe that professional journalism has no cost.”
— Eliza Gaines, publisher of the Chattanooga Times Free Press, in a speech to the Rotary Club of Chattanooga on the future of newspapers.