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1 posted on 01/01/2010 3:28:10 PM PST by abb
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2 posted on 01/01/2010 3:28:40 PM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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Do Web readers value journalism enough to pay?

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

3 posted on 01/01/2010 3:29:35 PM PST by RJL
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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.


6 posted on 01/01/2010 3:33:22 PM PST by Brugmansian
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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?


7 posted on 01/01/2010 3:35:31 PM PST by kittycatonline.com
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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.
8 posted on 01/01/2010 3:35:55 PM PST by vetvetdoug (FUBO, a fashion statement for conservatives.)
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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?

9 posted on 01/01/2010 3:38:26 PM PST by Billthedrill
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we might if what you were actually doing was journalism.

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


12 posted on 01/01/2010 3:42:56 PM PST by Ouderkirk (Democrats: the party of Slavery, Segregation, Sodomy and Sedition)
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PAY TO BE PROPAGANDIZED?

I DON’T THINK SO!!!!


18 posted on 01/01/2010 3:46:29 PM PST by Dick Bachert (THE 2010 ELECTIONS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT IN OUR LIFETIMES! BE THERE!!!)
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There’s a long list of liberal rags that ain’t gonna make it if their business model is charging on the internet.


20 posted on 01/01/2010 3:53:47 PM PST by Rocky (Obama's ego: The "I's" have it.)
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Shoot the dog; there’s no serious jurinalism left.


21 posted on 01/01/2010 3:59:12 PM PST by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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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.


23 posted on 01/01/2010 4:08:05 PM PST by PaleoBob
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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.

24 posted on 01/01/2010 4:13:02 PM PST by AGreatPer (Impeach Obama)
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"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.

33 posted on 01/01/2010 5:24:13 PM PST by Wonder Warthog
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No.


37 posted on 01/01/2010 6:36:35 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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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?


43 posted on 01/02/2010 3:43:32 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (DRAFT PALIN)
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No they are cheap whores.


48 posted on 01/02/2010 5:46:32 AM PST by bmwcyle (Free the Navy Seals)
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I value journalism and will pay. I don’t value liberal activism and will not pay for it.


56 posted on 01/04/2010 12:17:01 PM PST by Poser (Enjoying Prime Rib for 58 Years!)
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