links for 2006-10-18

The European Commission’s proposed audio-visual services directive would hit small online publishers and user-generated content sites hardest, the Times’ report suggests.

Disgraced Page Six columnist Jared Paul Stern says the average New York Post reader “is a complete cretin” and says his new book will tell all about New York gossip journalism.

Hayden Shaughnessy examines the recieved wisdom of Web 2.0 journalism. Readers are only rarely writers, and the real issue is newspapers’ cost stuctures as advertising moves online.