Nice try, Mr. Mulshine, but you fail.
Sadly, most "real journalists" only encourage the tax raising which springs from the equality-of-outcomes mindset.
I can easily imagine you as wordsmith to the Crown in pre-Revolutionary America, comtemptuous and dismissive of incensed anti-tax pamphlet writers - patriot bloggers, if you will.
“Journalists” forget that the purpose of a newspaper is to sell ads. The ads are placed on the pages before the stories are.
And most newspapers simply copy off the AP and Reuters wires to fill their column inches.
I’ll miss the flash-bulb cameras! ROFL
Excuse me Mr. MULEshine,
There are no “real journalists”, or very few of them for sure. FR is where I can scan worldwide news, gather some facts or keep it narrowly focused depending on my interest of the day, it’s got them all beat IMO.
Sure, I’d love to be able to hold a real paper in my hands and read, something satisfying about that as I dislike squinting at a screen, scrolling through an article but it sure beats the propaganda mills regardless.
In our rural Texas area we have a couple of weeklys that hit on the local town councils and issues as well as the annual Christmas parades and nice buck deer taken by locals, thank you very much.
America, the once-proud nation, certainly will NOT.
Good freaking riddance.
“Soon, newspapers won’t be able to do it either.”
They already don’t. Maybe that is why no one is subscribing to them anymore and they are bankrupt.
Many employees of the print and broadcast media have business cards or resumes that cite “journalist” as their job title. There is a vast, vast difference between that and the biased, op-ed hack that has taken over so many positions. I just want fair-handed treatment when I read an article. ‘nuf said?
I guess I should read the article, but Paul Mulshine just turns me off. He is a local, and there was a time that I had respect for him. But — in the past few years he has become just plain contrary, with a negative slant on everything.
Maybe he thinks that people will read his words if only to get a rise out of his opinions, but it doesn’t work with me. Mulshine? Ho-hum.
Yep. He’s longing for the day when only the liberally educated elites could shape public opinion.
Waaaaa! My 15 minutes of fame is almost up.
More changes at the Star
This news about the features section has come now from three different sources, so it’s already circulating out there with former staffers. Here is what the latest source says:
“Not announced yet, but look ford a reduction in the number of sections, all in the interest in saving newsprint. Features (or what is left of features) will front the classified ads.
“Metro/State will front Business. TV listings will move to the A Section (’so to make last minute changes’ of course). From (publisher) Michael (Kane’s) note: If you have any questions, see Dennis (Ryerson).
Also in jeopardy: the Saturday op-ed pages will disappear in January, say some. And some staffers are being asked to punch a clock and their time in the restrooms is being monitored.
How will we know if you won't leave.
I see more and more of these whiny pieces coming from the MSM lately. Sounds like a death rattle to me.
In a lot of places, the city council meetings are either streamed or on a cable channel. So why do I need a reported to tell me about things that interest me.
With all that said, he is mistaking the content of journalism for the means of delivery. Of course, 90% of what is on the Internet is dreck. The remaining 10% includes nuggets that the MSM totally missed, like the deserved downfall of Dan Rather.
The broader point is this. At the turn of the last century, every newspaper delivered its content on horse-drawn wagons. By 1920, all newspapers were using trucks, and anyone dumb enough to continue using horse-drawn wagons would soon be out of business.
Standard newspapers face a similar choice today. Those who persist in putting ink on paper will die. That includes the NY Times. Any newspaper that learns how to edit Internet content, publish on the Internet, and make money doing that, will become the leading newspaper in the United States, bar none.
This is a rather obvious point. Paul is missing it.
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There have been realitively few REAL journalist around for a couple of decades now..
This guy is late to the party...
Most journalist are simply shills for an agenda be it a political one or a social issue one...
You do have a point, advocacy does define too much of today’s print production yet the writer’s plea is thus:
“Over the past few weeks, I’ve watched a parade of top-notch reporters leave the Star-Ledger for the last time. The old model for compensating journalists is as obsolete as the telegraph. If anyone out there in the blogosphere can tell me what the new model is, I will pronounce him the first genius I’ve ever encountered on the Internet.”
Mr. Mulshine is an opinion columnist for the Newark Star-Ledger.
While not a card-carrying genius myself, I do believe that this small man should recognize that the developed ability to hide only delays the day when the prey will be eaten.
The protective cover of time and distribution allows for analysis but never substitutes for decision.
Bloggers are only stepping into the great vacuum left by the death of real reporting.
If only we had a conservative/christian businessman who could buy up some of these newspapers, on the cheap and prove once and for all IF liberal bias is the main culpret of NP losses or if it is merely a technological one.. I am betting in certian markets if the NWPs actually had new management-reported the news instead of bias, plus covered stories the American public wanted-then they’d actually PICK up readership, and the people would love it!..(fresh air-as opposed to the stagnant socialist rags we have now).
We have no journalists anymore. We’re all bloggers. Some do it for free. Some get paid by newspapers.
Bloggers are no replacement for real journalists
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And who are these real journalists and where are they?