Newspapers have always been held in contempt by those who confuse our mix of information and opinions as promoting an agenda ...
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Newspapers are held in contempt by those who (1) CAN READ and (2) have an IQ over 65. Agenda? They have ONLY ONE agenda. And the above criteria are more than sufficient to immediately see what the agenda is.....this was not even a good try at lying, as usual.
Gathering and delivering facts is easy. Gathering and delivering propaganda, however, is a craft.
I hate it when someone renders my heart.
So . . . make a new business model. Start with honest news. Not biased.
Here’s another line of hooey from this article:
“Common wisdom holds that the Internet is killing newspapers.”
The common wisdom is wrong. I know this from the inside, since the sad truth is that I spent 15 years of my young adulthood writing and editing newspapers. I could see the death of the print media in 1995, when I decided to jump ship, and the Internet was barely a ripple at that time.
The death of the media comes from something called “advocacy journalism.” This kind of writing is best shown by Hunter Thompson in his “Fear and Loathing...” writings, in which the reporter and his sources intermingle in an entertaining and enlightening manner. Unfortunately, the advocacy quickly became leftist cant, and we have the results we have today.
When I started in the business, newspapers were filled with curmudgeonly old men who loved their community and loved the country. My first bosses were like that. You could open the paper and get an instant feel for the community, its people, and its local culture. The paper was the face that the town showed the world. During my time, the viewpoint changed into advocacy, so now newspapers only reflect themselves and their leftwing ideology. By the way, in my opinion, that’s the reason for the ascendency of conservative talk radio, which provided advocacy of a different sort, and mirrors the print media in that every town and city has Rush and Sean - and every town and city has a leftwing print paper.
The community became lost. I used to love reading the paper, but when it became clear that the news was interchangeable from paper to paper, I stopped reading newsprint and went online.
Looking back, I’m glad I jumped ship when I did instead of being a 52-year-old reporter in a dying business. I miss the paper on Sunday morning, though.
Well, that confusion is keeping me from purchasing Gannett products. Weeping and knashing of teeth. Hopefully, they can get a job with BO’s administration in the Ministry of Information or with the Clinton Global Initiative.
Can’t see where the skill set would be useful anywhere else.
Then newspapers began crafting guidelines on what could be printed (i.e. conservative letters were a no-no) and limited the number of words. I'm sorry, but a good writer like me needs more than 100 words to explain my position, and no, I don't want to see my letter buried underneath the lingerie ad.
So people started going elsewhere, on blogs and websites where you can write to your heart's content without ancient gatekeepers in print media. And that's one of the reasons why print media is dying.
Fantastic good news treat! Thanks for posting.
Sure, I hope these Democrat newsrooms suffer plenty of pain, but more than that I want them to just hurry up and die. They and their party have done enough damage to America, thank you.