I am stunned that people do not understand the value of journalists and newspapers.
First, newspapers offer one of the only organizations with the resources to monitor, investigate and print information that newsmakers may not want printed. We want papers to print about corruption at city hall or connect the massive layoffs of Tuesday with the exorbitant executive bonus of Wednesday.
Newspapers do this on a local and national basis. What other organization will do so? The many online services provide little of this. They primarily act to repeat press releases and do puff pieces. They cannot afford to do any actual reporting. Google and Huffington and the like don't report, they repeat. People do not realize the cost of the loss of local papers.
Unfortunately, as newspapers have been purchased by larger companies, much of their benefits have been lost. They have taken on the roll of press release repetition.
I am less saddened that I am in the last newspaper generation. I am more saddened that those who come next will have fewer ways to learn that the powerful are screwing them on purpose.
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Newspaper value
I am stunned that people do not understand the value of journalists and newspapers.
First, newspapers offer one of the only organizations with the resources to monitor, investigate and print information that newsmakers may not want printed. We want papers to print about corruption at city hall or connect the massive layoffs of Tuesday with the exorbitant executive bonus of Wednesday.
Newspapers do this on a local and national basis. What other organization will do so? The many online services provide little of this. They primarily act to repeat press releases and do puff pieces. They cannot afford to do any actual reporting. Google and Huffington and the like don't report, they repeat. People do not realize the cost of the loss of local papers.
Unfortunately, as newspapers have been purchased by larger companies, much of their benefits have been lost. They have taken on the roll of press release repetition.
I am less saddened that I am in the last newspaper generation. I am more saddened that those who come next will have fewer ways to learn that the powerful are screwing them on purpose.