tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post5940144624574422008..comments2023-10-27T03:41:13.171-07:00Comments on Warning Signs: Disappearing Daily NewspapersAlan Carubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-6369860932377687142009-03-14T03:18:00.000-07:002009-03-14T03:18:00.000-07:00I have not read a print newspaper in years. The fa...I have not read a print newspaper in years. The fact is that the fast pace of information, today, leaves the newspaper for dead. Certainly one needs to belong to a belief system - as many people do belong - when one subscribes to a particular newspaper. <BR/>Because of narrowing margins many once famous papers are but shadows of their former image and circulation numbers.<BR/>Why? Well,a more informed public is seeing throught the subterfuge of owners and editors who demand particular topic be biased in one way or another to the exclusion of a balanced opposite view.<BR/>When you buy a newspaper you are buying skewed views.<BR/>The way the news is reported, and by who, tells another story.<BR/>Reporters have there own views and this comes across in their reportage. They are, perhaps, employed because their outlook concurs with management.<BR/>Additionally, there is a time constraint. Copy has to be presented to meet a deadline - just how little time is there to do serious research into a topic to do it justice (without bias if such were possible)? It's little wonder that the modern journalist is an expert on the Agency reportage 'cut-and-paste' methodology to get the elements of a story together for the deadline. Just get those pages filled - a real example of 'never mind the quality, feel the width' ( what a lovely,over-arching expression that is)and there is so much of it. How do I know if I don't read print? Unfortunately, the garbage also ends up in the on-line version, too.<BR/>It seems there are lots of out-of-work journalist and those in work also have bills and a mortgages to pay; toeing the line is mandatory if you want to eat and have a roof. <BR/>Those who do say it as it is tend to be free-lance, for example Pilger and Booker, who really do their homework and have a good and valid story to tell - as well as a good reputation to maintain. <BR/>Technology is moving ahead to meet people's expectations. <BR/>The average newspaper cannot hope to meet those expectations of a more precise and specialised interest public who demand a truth that has, unfortunately, escaped the print papers. <BR/>People have become wise to their bias and hence are leaving their cloud nine for more earthly, verifiable truths on the Internet. <BR/>The papers have only themselves to blame and they will never again achieve the zenith of past glory.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-89752952232203655162009-03-13T16:44:00.000-07:002009-03-13T16:44:00.000-07:00As to that "other reason" permit me to quote from ...As to that "other reason" permit me to quote from a great site<BR/>called <A><B>thefreeman.org</B></A> in an article entitled <I>Why Socialism Failed</I><BR/><BR/>"By rewarding success and penalizing failure, the profit system provides a strong disciplinary mechanism which continually redirects resources away from weak, failing, and inefficient firms toward those firms which are <B>the most efficient and successful at serving the public.</B> A competitive profit system ensures a constant reoptimization of resources and moves the economy toward greater levels of efficiency. Unsuccessful firms cannot escape the strong discipline of the marketplace under a profit/loss system. <B>Competition forces companies to serve the public interest or suffer the consequences.</B>"<BR/><BR/>This may not be the main reason behind the demise, but the refusal of honesty, in favor of ideology, has me cheering the destruction of a tool of deceit. If they had been honest, I would be mourning this same circumstance.libertyforusahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08584974436761909593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-83124466644584114022009-03-13T15:11:00.000-07:002009-03-13T15:11:00.000-07:00Having started my working life in the advertising ...Having started my working life in the advertising department of a major metropolitan newspaper I can attest to how much work goes into publishing a daily newspaper, especially when putting out the Sunday edition. <BR/><BR/>I can remember (I was 19 at the time) discussing the merits of the local paper versus the NYT with a prominent banker, his wife and his friends and adamatly proclaiming that our paper was every bit as good because we published what was important to our community. <BR/><BR/>I can still remember the scoffing and guffaws. Even my best friend (now for 45 years) chuckled and shook his head….. and he worked with me. As It turns out....I was right after all.<BR/><BR/>Having said all of that, I will come to the point. The internet made the people aware that you really “can't believe anything you read in the newspapers”. Once that happened...they have abandoned the papers wholesale. <BR/><BR/> The print media (as well as the electronic news media) then dropped any pretense of honesty, integrity and fair reporting. The more more readers they lost, the more they exposed themselves, and the more readers they lost. That will not change. It will grow! The public will not be fooled again.<BR/><BR/>I like eating breakfast out and that is where I get the paper. I quickly scan it to see if there is anything in there worth noting so that I can look it up on line later to find out what is the real story. <BR/><BR/>Then I go to the sports page where the stories are more reliable, and even then they deliberately leave out important information. Of course it really doesn't matter how reliable those stories are anyway. It's just sports. Unless of course they are talking about the Browns and then it becomes almost sacrosanct. You have to keep your perspective after all you know. <BR/><BR/>Then I go to the part of the paper that I originally bought the paper for. The crossword puzzle! And it isn’t even fair.Rich Kozlovichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13745960671409518147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-18788103989658305862009-03-13T13:04:00.000-07:002009-03-13T13:04:00.000-07:00Old editors used to tell rooky reporters, "If your...Old editors used to tell rooky reporters, "If your Mother says she loves you, check it out."<BR/><BR/>In a world awash in information, it behooves us all to be skeptics.Alan Carubahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-49809033660501572012009-03-13T13:02:00.000-07:002009-03-13T13:02:00.000-07:00Isn't there an old proverb that goes something lik...Isn't there an old proverb that goes something like this." Believe only half of what you see and none of what you hear"? Or maybe something similar. Newspapers and the old media are dinosaurs.I'll let you Alan add anything else as it is your blog.Necromancerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16596027359880539976noreply@blogger.com