Clueless and verbose to the end.
Bye, now.
I would send all those people listed above and email, but no matter how factual and honest I could be in pointing out exactly what they did to cause their own demise it would fall on deaf ears.
I’m mystified as to the snide and somewhat celebratory attitude some here take toward an American industry in distress.
We are increasingly a short-sighted culture. And we like to place blame. The news media — particularly the print media, in this case — by being out front, accepts its role as the bearer of bad tidings. The messenger gets stoned, so to speak, and that’s been the case for millenia.
However, our short-sightedness also comes with a bit of amnesia. While we resent the media for honoring 0’s ascendancy, we also forget the many instances over the years when we’ve known of the failures, the struggles, the misdeeds, the important issues of our people and our times. The print media gave us that, and we as a society lose every time a paper silences its presses.
The Founders knew the value of an unshackled media, thus its inclusion in our Bill of Rights. Ever look back at the broadsides of that day? We may resent media opinion today, but it is milquetoast in the context of history.
Depends, of course, which side you’re on and which side you’re reading.
Some seem to think that print media is fading because some outlets print editorials that don’t agree with the conservative position, that readers have turned away.
Readers have indeed turned away, and it has nothing to do with politics. They can now get for free on the internet what they used to get from classified and display advertisements. Who buys a newspaper to shop anymore?
Want to hear the latest news? Sign on to the internet or switch on cable TV. Politics has little to do with newspaper woes; technology does, indeed.
Freedom of written and broadcast opinion, then and now, is one of our most valuable rights. That celebratory party you seem to want to throw might better be a wake.
We are the losers here.