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[RJL]

Do Web readers value journalism enough to pay?

Show us some honest journalism and we will let you know.

[Brugmansian]

Only reason I read the LA Times, the NY Times and similar publications is to see what the official Democratic position is on something. If they go away, I’ll be forced to get it from Gibbs, Obama, Pelosi or Reid.

[kittycatonline.com]

Ain’t that the irony? Liberal Media panders to Liberals, and liberals respond in kind by not purchasing any product. The Liberal Solution? Make the government pay!

Say, how come liberals don’t support their own?

[vetvetdoug]

At this point in history I would not give a journalist the sweat off my left testicle. The so called professional journalists in the US are biased and write with an agenda that applauds liberalism and vilifies the middle and the right. Do I value journalism enough to pay? No because journalists that write for today's papers are liars.

[Billthedrill]

Maybe we do, but if I had to pay for journalism my money would be headed to British journalists, not American partisan political operators. The domestic media still appear clueless as to the extent to which their credibility died in the last Presidential election.

So why shouldn't I support, say, the NY Times? Because its staff hates me and holds me in contempt, that's why, and they don't even try to hide the fact. Why on earth would I pay someone for that?

[Ouderkirk]

we might if what you were actually doing was journalism.

Since it is not even close to journalism the answer is NO.

[Dick Bachert]

PAY TO BE PROPAGANDIZED?

I DON’T THINK SO!!!!

[Rocky]

There’s a long list of liberal rags that ain’t gonna make it if their business model is charging on the internet.

[sionnsar]

Shoot the dog; there’s no serious jurinalism left.

[PaleoBob]

Notice the use of the word “journalism” as the object of value. People never bought a newspaper for “journalism.” They wanted to read the news—or sports, or classifieds. The end-product is supposed to be facts. Or, news. Sometimes, possibly, truth.

He might have asked if people value the “facts.” But he knows so little of the facts, and clearly is one of those who values them not.

Oh well. And they wonder why they are in the tank.

[AGreatPer]

Even some sports journalists stink these days.

I see two just got canned in my local rag.
Being a homer writer is one thing and acceptable.
Getting silly over it - your gone. Why? Everyone is sick of it.

[Wonder Warthog]

"As the media landscape continues to skew to online from print, more news outlets may feel financial pressure to test just how much readers care about professional credentials."

Well, before I will pay for news, it has to actually BE news, and not propaganda. What is needed is not "professional credentials", but "professional ethics".

Right now, amateur journalists display more professional ethics than do "professional" reporters.

[Cicero]

No.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

But with the citizenry increasingly fitted into a series of silos, the challenge of coming together for a civil, coherent conversation will grow greater.

When the writer speaks of "the challenge of coming together for a civil, coherent conversation," what I hear is the challenge of channeling the public discourse into the left-wing trough which is natural to AP journalism.

Show me someone who claims objectivity rather than confessing to the reasons why he might not be objective in spite of his good intentions, and I will show you a propagandist.

And if that shoe fits the journalists you have been listening to, what does that tell you?

[bmwcyle]

No they are cheap whores.

[Poser]

I value journalism and will pay. I don’t value liberal activism and will not pay for it.