This so called crisis of print and other media was created on a false premise. If these idiots cared so much about surviving, why did they not report the truth before this instead of leftist agendas? Now they want a bail out band aid to continue their perfidy. Go fly a kite clowns.
After 25 years in the newspaper business, I had to take early retirement in 2009 to look after my mother in her last years.
So, I have no recent experience of the state of the newspaper industry.
But I can tell you that, during my career, professional standards were definitely higher in the hometown press.
For example, none of the managing editors I worked under would allow unnamed sources except under the most exceptional of circumstances. And usually we’d have our lawyers look over those stories before publication.
Even a lot of the liberal journalists I worked with would complain that us local yokels would get besmirched by the shenanigans of the big-time media.
Still, the industry as a whole has betrayed the American people by not taking a decisive stand against Leftism. A lot of rank-and-file reporters and editors are suffering.
I have some sympathy for them — but not a lot.
I’m only 62 and writing as well as ever, at least I think. It would be a joy and a blessing to be back in the biz, if ever the media culture changed back to something that put facts before narratives.
An old man — well, late middle-aged — can dream can’t he?