Posted on 08/26/2012 3:01:14 PM PDT by re_nortex
New Orleans is now the largest city in the U.S. to not have a daily newspaper and is also one of the first cities to hurl itself into the digital age. However, the shift to a primarily digital medium threatens an integral component of journalism: the daily journalist.
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This is good news as the leftist lamestream media continues its inexorable death march. Hopefully Marxist organs such as the New York Slimes will follow the fate of the New Orleans daily. With credible sources notably Free Republic, known not only for informed opinion but also for breaking news (Dan Rather, the Columbia space tragedy to name but two), is there any need at all for newspapers or ABC, CBS and NBC in 2012?
Don’t forget FR breaking the story of the Bush Thanksgiving dinner in Afghanistan. While the networks in Crawford were describing dish by dish what they thought he was eating a few yards away.
That’s funny, I could swear it was Baghdad.
Nawlins’ been reelin’ f’a long tahm.
But I’m trying to get a journalism job. I have to stay in practice. If I bothered to check my facts before posting, I wouldn’t have a chance.
How could the T-P compete with Shep Smith breathlessly describing canabalism in the Super Dome during Katrina? Not all horrible journalism is in the newspaper.
“...but it’s sad because we’re losing great storytellers...”
Yeah. That’s your problem. You have storytellers—not impartial reporters.
Journalism students invariably say that they want to be journalists so that they “can make a difference”. Well, they have. Together with the dynamics of the digital age, the unfettered bias of today’s journalists has destroyed newspapers. Quite a difference, I’d say.
New Orleans was one of the first real cities on this continent. They are once again being pioneers. Within five years, the daily newspaper will be all but extinct and journalism will no longer be a viable career field. I guess that journalists will have to do for a living what they now do for free: supporting lefty political causes.
I recall a story a few years ago in which a speaker addressing a group of journalism school graduates said, “I wish you success in your careers as insurance salesmen and dish washer repairmen.”
Even though its sympathies clearly lie with those of the commie ilk, the Dallas Observer occasionally stumbles into the reality-based world. Take a look at Report: Don't Major in the Humanities, You Broke Idiot. There's some vile profanity in the piece, typical of a rag of this persuasion. But the truth is still there in the article:
...people with Engineering degrees can expect to earn the highest monthly salary after graduation, around $3,250. At the same time, they can expect to pay student loans of around $229 a month, or seven percent of their income. Humanities majors, meanwhile, rank at the very bottom: they can look forward to around $1300 month and $237 a month in loans, or a whopping 18 percent of their monthly income. They didn't find that median income differed greatly for people who earned degrees from private institutions versus public ones.
Captioned: "Liberal arts majors in love"
It will be a cold winter with nothing to light those fires with.
It will be a cold winter with nothing to light those fires with.
Thankfully, New Orleans doesn't stay cold for that long in the winter. ;o)
Actually it is a move to improve efficiency. When the Food Stamp President and his lackeys want to put out the latest spin, they need to contact an inordinate number of papers. By eliminating the local journalists and having just one resident internet journalist at the WH, stories can be gen’d up and disseminated in record time with each recipient guaranteed to receive exactly what spewed forth from “the One”.
One disturbing consequence of the end of print media.....now the news can be changed “on the fly”.....something gets out there, that the powers that be don’t like, simply erase it from the online version. With print, once it’s there, it doesn’t go away.
I worked Thanksgiving to Easter one winter and it felt clammy and cold most of the time. The wilted organic debris stank too.
That having been said, I do remember being there for Mardi Gras one year and my fingers hurting because of the cold, mainly because I wasn't prepared and didn't wear any gloves! ;o)
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