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2007-06-22 Home Front: Culture Wars

The decline of news - Get out yer hankies!

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Posted by Zenster 2007-06-22 01:05|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 2 points.

Some of the best investigative reporting is happening online. Annie Jacobsen's Terror in the Skies series was terrific.

This is disintermediation at work. We need news gathers. We need informed analysis or even the kind of half-assed analysis we specialize in here at the Burg. We don't need journalists. They insinuated themselves into the process when the MSM were the gatekeepers of news. Good riddance to them.

Posted by phil_b 2007-06-22 05:57|| 2007-06-22 05:57|| Front Page Top

#2 "If all the newspapers in America did not allow Google to steal their content, how profitable would Google be?"

Since most of the content Google links to comes from AP, Reuters, etc. -- the same companies that provide most of the items in all the newspapers in America, except the local stuff -- who are the exceedingly well-paid newspaper journalists to complain?

who indirectly benefit so enormously from the expensive labor of journalists

Clearly it hasn't occurred to the good professor that his graduates might be more than a tad overpaid for the work they do.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-06-22 06:22|| 2007-06-22 06:22|| Front Page Top

#3 It is a public trust vital to a free society.

And you guys used to be responsible for it. Didn't y'all make a choice to turn the 'public trust' into a profit center?

Posted by Bobby 2007-06-22 06:44|| 2007-06-22 06:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Hallelujah! The liberal media monopoly on news and entertainment is finally getting shredded by the free market.

Posted by Glusotch, Avenger of the Wombats7546 2007-06-22 07:15|| 2007-06-22 07:15|| Front Page Top

#5 "It is a public trust vital to a free society."

So all news media jobs should be 'protected' and subsidized by the government - like the BBC does. No layoffs! No pay cuts! No accountability!
(sarcasm, I hope.)

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-06-22 08:05|| 2007-06-22 08:05|| Front Page Top

#6 forcing top officials to publicly acknowledge their mistakes and work to fix them...

Unless those "top officials" are Democrats or reporters.

But I repeat myself.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-06-22 08:30|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-06-22 08:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Rob - you get my vote for "Snark of the Week"!

Posted by Mohammad Khatami 2007-06-22 08:33|| 2007-06-22 08:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Mine, too, Rob!

Posted by Bobby 2007-06-22 08:37|| 2007-06-22 08:37|| Front Page Top

#9 ...a tragic story of traditional journalism's decline.

Who says tragic? Those aiders and abetters of terrorism. People are fed up with their lying BS.

How about a bumper sticker that says: "The media lied, troops died?"

Posted by JohnQC 2007-06-22 09:44|| 2007-06-22 09:44|| Front Page Top

#10 [cue crying]
Oh my god, the humanity!!!
[/cue crying]

reporters, editors and other skilled professionals

When did that start? I thought they were ardent, selfless amateurs.

Posted by Almost Anonymous5839">Almost Anonymous5839 2007-06-22 11:02|| 2007-06-22 11:02|| Front Page Top

#11 Harry lied
Media cried
Troops died
Islamists ride

Posted by Bobby 2007-06-22 13:09|| 2007-06-22 13:09|| Front Page Top

#12 Everyone's fault but their own.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-06-22 17:09|| 2007-06-22 17:09|| Front Page Top

#13 Women and Children will be hit hardest.

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