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Come think of it I bet Edward G Robinson spinning in his grave LOL!
No one deserves my most earnest wish of failure more than al-Reuters.
To paraphrase, the battle for print publishing is over, the battle for media itself has begun…Lamentations from the scribes of humanism's bible:
Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University
Walter Lippmann House
Are Reporters Doomed?
Spring 2008
... I was dismayed to read Roy Greenslade's recent blog about the rise of citizen journalists. "Journalistic skills are not entirely wiped out in an online world, but they are eroded and, most importantly, they cannot be confined any longer to an exclusive elite group," he wrote. ...
... it also degrades valuable principles—the idea of discrimination, that some voices are more credible than others, that a named source is better than an anonymous pamphleteer (that’s what they used to call bloggers in the 18th century, when they published, for example, the politically dangerous Letters of Junius). The notion of authoritativeness is derided as a sort of "top-down" fascism. ...
... But the power of reporting does not lie entirely—or even mostly—in the nobility of its practitioners or their professional skills. Or their celebrity status. It also lies in the preservation of media outlets that are themselves powerful. ...