The Death of News (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

The Nation ^ | November 15, 2006 | Nicholas Von Hoffman

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GONE WITH THE WIND - 2006

"There was a land of Publishers and Editors called the Newspaper Business... Here in this pretty world Journalism took its last bow... Here was the last ever to be seen of Reporters and their Enablers, of Anonymous Sources and of Stringers... Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered. A Civilization Gone With the Wind..."

With apologies to Margaret Mitchell...

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Raoul's First Law of Journalism
BIAS = LAYOFFS

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Ping

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"The Internet operations do not pay people to go out and gather accurate information."

From what I read in newspapers, they don't either.

[youngjim]

The Internet operations do not pay people to go out and gather accurate information.

And the media does?

ROTFLMAO

[Brad from Tennessee]

[When the last reporter is laid off, we can subsist on rumor, speculation and gossip.]

That is what they have been serving up to us for years anyway.

[Maceman]

When the last reporter is laid off, we can subsist on rumor, speculation and gossip.

In other words, pretty much what we get now from the NYT, WP and the broadcast and cable news networks.

[I still care]

My area newspaper, the St Petersberg Times, is an absolute left wing shill. If they don't have anything negative to report about Conservatives, they make up an editorial headline and paste it up as news. Their latest jihad is we need to pay more property taxes.

I haven't bought one in years.

[knews_hound]

The local TV stations, with the exception of Fox, have cut back on traditional news coverage.

Now stop for a moment and think, why is that?

Could it be that in fact, the MSM isn't dying, but rather (pardon the pun), the BIASED media that is shrinking.

I realize that self reflection isn't their strong suit but how long will it be before someone in the MSM figures out that if they present an impartial view of the knews, they succeed, if they continue their biased coverage, they die.

Screw 'em I say.

Cheers,

knewshound

http://www.knewshound.blogspot.com/

[pabianice]

One reason morale is down is reportorial work is getting exceedingly amateurish, biased, and unprofessional...

[Wicket]

The latest offer from the Oregon Fishwrap, AKA the Oregonian, is a 4 week free trial.

Not on your life - don't have a bird and my dog is already housetrained.

[US_MilitaryRules]

Take the trial and cancel when over. Then repeat til out of business. Could you imagine a conservative newspaper? The circulation would be astronomical!

[stevem]

Other than the websites supported by newspapers, the Internet is devoid of reporters.

I doubt Free Republic is "supported" by newspapers. Free Republic does, though, have thousands of reporters.

[Cicero]

and just the other day, according to the Associated Press, "Misael Tamayo Hernandez, editor of El Despertar de la Costa, was found nearly naked, with his hands tied behind his back, in a room of the Venus Motel on a highway

Only the purest kind of Marxist, writing for "The Nation," would imagine that this explains the Death of the MSM.

Economics was never a strong point for Marxists.

[ElPatriota]

HA...HA HE.. HE ... HE :)

[fatez]

I guess the MSM will have to come up with a Martyr award for journalist killed in the line of duty while changing the world.

[haroldeveryman]

"Average daily circulation dropped by 2.8 percent during the six-month period ended Sept. 30, compared with the period last year, according to an industry analysis of data released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Circulation for Sunday papers fell by 3.4 percent," wrote the New York Times.”

Gee, maybe the (former) customers of these "news" papers feel that they weren't getting what they were paying for. I suggest that they start checking their "facts". Then maybe I'll feel bad enough to send Nicholas Von Hoffman a handkerchief.

[Jacquerie]

I slowly savored every . . . single . . . word . . . of this great article and then reread it twice. I tried to recall the spin, lies and distortions they told about Reagan, Bork, and hundreds of other good men these past 30 years. The old liberal media is dying an agonizing death and I have as much compassion for them as I do for a dead cockroach.

[USS Alaska]

so far this year in Iraq twenty-six journalists have been killed;

It's too soon to pull out, the iraqi's have more work to do.