[DBrow]

"journalism's watchdog role "

What the heck is this referring to? Who gave journalism this role?

[Milhous]

journalism's watchdog role

What the heck is this referring to? Who gave journalism this role?

By virtue of owning printing presses gossipy tyrants gave themselves the role of criticizing others who actually do things. By innuendo MSM now declares that only it delivers "authentic news" whatever that means.

Are newspapers in crisis? Yes, unless they reinvent themselves because readership is moving away from the printed form. Do they have a future? Absolutely, but it's a future that looks quite different from the one they've been used to. When you are putting content online, you need to use the brands that newspapers have around authentic news and quality journalism in a medium that's more democratic and and interactive and slightly less tablets of stone. But my gut feel is that if I was an ambitious 21-year-old and had two job offers, one from traditional print and one was from online content or distribution, my guess would be that most people would take the online. A good way of determining whether an industry is in decline or not is to decide what you would do at the age of 21.

[GOPJ]

"journalism's watchdog role "

LOL

Here's how they perform their "role": Dem: boinks underage pages - no story - BIG PASS. Rep: writes creepy letters to pages - BIG story - NO pass.

Dem: leaves young woman to drown in car while working on covering butt - NO story - BIG PASS. Rep: driving while drinking on back road - no one hurt - no accident BIG Story - NO Pass.

Dem: ex KKK Klugle - MSM keeps secret for years NO Story. Rep: says something nice about old racist at birthday party - BIG Story - NO Pass. There's thousands more examples - "Watchdog"? Yeah, right. Wasn't born yesterday.