Kos hits new levels of cluelessness about newspapers

When Mr. Markos weighs in from Orange Hell about what’s wrong with newspapers, there’s plenty that’s likely to be wrong, and is.

Bottom line, though, is that Kos is whining about proposals to toughen up fair use laws, which would affect bloggers, and, by extension, Kos.

Well, boo hoo for Markos.

Now, that’s not to say that some of Bruce Sanford and Bruce Brown’s ideas aren’t stupid, because they are. But the column has some good ideas, too.

However, Kos agrees with another of their dumber ones — increasing media consolidation.

And, he also ignores Google’s opt-out, rather than opt-in, policies, on Internet indexing; social theorists tell us that in a variety of ways, for a vast number of services, opt-in is far more customer friendly.

Worst of all, Kos doesn’t even discuss Sen. Ben Cardin’s idea to let newspapers (that don’t own entities in other media) to reform as nonprofit groups.