Does great reporting matter if nobody sees it? (Dan Rather - Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

Poynter Online ^ | March | Jim Rendon

[ken5050]

winnah!!!

[catnipman]

“But the company [NYT] has struggled to make enough money from its digital operations to stem the decline in print advertising ...”

Well, naturally, anyone with a lick of sense knows that it will be impossible to replace print advertising revenues with digital revenues for any print media operation for a plethora of reasons, but mostly because the Internet broke the print media’s publication monopolies, with subscription revenues approaching zero, as well as bringing down the revenue per ad from thousands of dollars to tiny fractions of cents, and in one important case, namely Craigslist, ads are outright free.

The monopoly print media dinosaurs are doomed, and that’s a good thing. A very good thing. Because most have simply become propaganda organs for the Socialist Democrats and the neo-Marxist “progressives”.

[jim_trent]

> Two Rather Half-Assed Men

That adds up to a complete ass.

[abb]

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/3/8/rich-journalism-goldsmith-crimson/
Frank Rich Discusses Modern Journalism

[Richard Kimball]

The falsification of the National Guard documents was a felony. The only reason Burkett, Mapes and Rather weren't sitting in front of a Federal grand jury is because the Bush Administration let them off the hook.

BTW, Burkett claims he burned the original documents after he faxed them. Anybody else believe that?