Who Is Gonna Do It? You? You, Lt. Weinberg?
I was whining about newspapers the other day and, obviously, I’m not the only one. For a long time I have been of the mind that at some point the people who run newspapers would realize that even in an ever-increasingly online world they still offer a unique and necessary product — a depth of news and information delivered in the best format for the consumption of both — and that they would start emphasizing their strengths and stop running away from them. Eric Alterman paints a dire picture and makes a point that leads me to think I am wrong: “The more one listens to the men and women at the top of the industry, the more it becomes obvious that the survival of the newspaper — the primary information-gathering and knowledge-disseminating instrument of American democracy — is going to have to come from somewhere else.”
This post was added on Saturday, July 19, 2008 by Tom Swift at 10:42 and is filed under Reading Material, Soapbox.
"Any idiot can face a crisis. It's day to day living that wears you out." -Anton Chekhov
