OT: How about those Union Tribune Layoffs?

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[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Watch Fox and get one slant; read Huffington Post and get another. What’s the answer?[/quote]

I agree that this is a problem. To me it falls upon the individual to make an educated decision based on the evidence at hand. And I agree that the problem then becomes having valid evidence upon which to make a decision — this is always a problem and one not isolated to new media. Read Wall St Journal and get one slant; read the Financial Times and get another. Unfortunately most people will gravitate towards the source that re-affirms their pre-existing beliefs. I see this as a fault of the consumer of journalism, not as a fault of journalism itself. We can’t rely on journalism to make our decisions for us.

It’s not much different than being a juror on a trial. Each side has an agenda and presents evidence supporting said agenda. It is your job and responsibility as a juror and likewise a consumer of journalism to make an educated decision based on the evidence at hand.

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[quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=flu]welcome to new media…. Old print is pretty much dead…Why pay journalists XXXX ,when you can pay bloggers ten cents on the dollar.[/quote]

FLU: The downside to bloggers is that they don’t have the investigative capability of a New York Times, or LA Times, or Newsweek (periodicals are going through the same bleeding out).

Combined with mostly corporate ownership, we now have a fully compromised press, which is part of the on-going problem in our society, namely little to no pushback on government or large business interests from an involved and engaged press.[/quote]

I was being sarastic…. I’d say a lot of the blogging is opinion rather than fact and hence not real news, but apparently, the new business model for a lot of companies is how “cheap” someone/resource is…The idea of quality products/services is out the window these days…And it seems as sad as it is the same with journalism as it is for product development.

[Coronita]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=flu]welcome to new media…. Old print is pretty much dead…Why pay journalists XXXX ,when you can pay bloggers ten cents on the dollar.[/quote]

FLU: The downside to bloggers is that they don’t have the investigative capability of a New York Times, or LA Times, or Newsweek (periodicals are going through the same bleeding out).

Combined with mostly corporate ownership, we now have a fully compromised press, which is part of the on-going problem in our society, namely little to no pushback on government or large business interests from an involved and engaged press.[/quote]

I was being sarastic…. I’d say a lot of the blogging is opinion rather than fact and hence not real news, but apparently, the new business model for a lot of companies is how “cheap” someone/resource is…The idea of quality products/services is out the window these days…And it seems as sad as it is the same with journalism as it is for product development.

[Coronita]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=flu]welcome to new media…. Old print is pretty much dead…Why pay journalists XXXX ,when you can pay bloggers ten cents on the dollar.[/quote]

FLU: The downside to bloggers is that they don’t have the investigative capability of a New York Times, or LA Times, or Newsweek (periodicals are going through the same bleeding out).

Combined with mostly corporate ownership, we now have a fully compromised press, which is part of the on-going problem in our society, namely little to no pushback on government or large business interests from an involved and engaged press.[/quote]

I was being sarastic…. I’d say a lot of the blogging is opinion rather than fact and hence not real news, but apparently, the new business model for a lot of companies is how “cheap” someone/resource is…The idea of quality products/services is out the window these days…And it seems as sad as it is the same with journalism as it is for product development.

[Coronita]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=flu]welcome to new media…. Old print is pretty much dead…Why pay journalists XXXX ,when you can pay bloggers ten cents on the dollar.[/quote]

FLU: The downside to bloggers is that they don’t have the investigative capability of a New York Times, or LA Times, or Newsweek (periodicals are going through the same bleeding out).

Combined with mostly corporate ownership, we now have a fully compromised press, which is part of the on-going problem in our society, namely little to no pushback on government or large business interests from an involved and engaged press.[/quote]

I was being sarastic…. I’d say a lot of the blogging is opinion rather than fact and hence not real news, but apparently, the new business model for a lot of companies is how “cheap” someone/resource is…The idea of quality products/services is out the window these days…And it seems as sad as it is the same with journalism as it is for product development.

[Coronita]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=flu]welcome to new media…. Old print is pretty much dead…Why pay journalists XXXX ,when you can pay bloggers ten cents on the dollar.[/quote]

FLU: The downside to bloggers is that they don’t have the investigative capability of a New York Times, or LA Times, or Newsweek (periodicals are going through the same bleeding out).

Combined with mostly corporate ownership, we now have a fully compromised press, which is part of the on-going problem in our society, namely little to no pushback on government or large business interests from an involved and engaged press.[/quote]

I was being sarastic…. I’d say a lot of the blogging is opinion rather than fact and hence not real news, but apparently, the new business model for a lot of companies is how “cheap” someone/resource is…The idea of quality products/services is out the window these days…And it seems as sad as it is the same with journalism as it is for product development.

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whats killed the papers is craigslist.

the cheap classifiedds are wrecking most papers

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whats killed the papers is craigslist.

the cheap classifiedds are wrecking most papers

[patb]

whats killed the papers is craigslist.

the cheap classifiedds are wrecking most papers

[patb]

whats killed the papers is craigslist.

the cheap classifiedds are wrecking most papers

[patb]

whats killed the papers is craigslist.

the cheap classifiedds are wrecking most papers

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Here’s a very timely article that pretty much sums up how I feel about media in the modern age: The internet: Everything you ever need to know.

The title is sarcastic hyperbole, but it’s well written and hits on a few very important points. He brings up the analogy of how the printing press revolutionized culture and society, and that we’re going through a similar transformation with the Interwebs. Bottom line, we’re in the middle of a massive transformation and it’s pretty much impossible to predict the outcomes until we have a bit of hindsight to properly judge.

A lot of people predicted that the printing press would be the end of society as we know it, and that ended up being mostly true for those who were making that prediction. For everyone else it was the beginning of society as we know it.

[afx114]

Here’s a very timely article that pretty much sums up how I feel about media in the modern age: The internet: Everything you ever need to know.

The title is sarcastic hyperbole, but it’s well written and hits on a few very important points. He brings up the analogy of how the printing press revolutionized culture and society, and that we’re going through a similar transformation with the Interwebs. Bottom line, we’re in the middle of a massive transformation and it’s pretty much impossible to predict the outcomes until we have a bit of hindsight to properly judge.

A lot of people predicted that the printing press would be the end of society as we know it, and that ended up being mostly true for those who were making that prediction. For everyone else it was the beginning of society as we know it.

[afx114]

Here’s a very timely article that pretty much sums up how I feel about media in the modern age: The internet: Everything you ever need to know.

The title is sarcastic hyperbole, but it’s well written and hits on a few very important points. He brings up the analogy of how the printing press revolutionized culture and society, and that we’re going through a similar transformation with the Interwebs. Bottom line, we’re in the middle of a massive transformation and it’s pretty much impossible to predict the outcomes until we have a bit of hindsight to properly judge.

A lot of people predicted that the printing press would be the end of society as we know it, and that ended up being mostly true for those who were making that prediction. For everyone else it was the beginning of society as we know it.

[afx114]

Here’s a very timely article that pretty much sums up how I feel about media in the modern age: The internet: Everything you ever need to know.

The title is sarcastic hyperbole, but it’s well written and hits on a few very important points. He brings up the analogy of how the printing press revolutionized culture and society, and that we’re going through a similar transformation with the Interwebs. Bottom line, we’re in the middle of a massive transformation and it’s pretty much impossible to predict the outcomes until we have a bit of hindsight to properly judge.

A lot of people predicted that the printing press would be the end of society as we know it, and that ended up being mostly true for those who were making that prediction. For everyone else it was the beginning of society as we know it.

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