Newspapers RIP?
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- colin_s0
i'm currently in grad school for a master's degree in photojournalism. it's strange as obviously this is discussed a lot, but nobody seems to think that all these companies are going to fail. i sure as hell do.
it is sad, as broadcast journalism simply cannot cover the same amount of material that a well researched article or series of articles can. so much will be lost when good reporters can't get paid; it's not really like the music industry, because bands can still make money touring, there's still a tangible commercial method to be made.
a whole lot of power will go unchecked, and a whole lot of people will be terribly uninformed & more obsessed with celebrities, if all this happens. sad.
- doesnotexist0
electronic newspapers will help them climb to the top again.
- ukit0
@colin_s - yea, that's exactly what I'm saying. Everyone thinks blogs will take over, but do you think Matt Drudge is out there hunting down the tough stories? No way, he's just cutting and pasting stuff from other sources - mainly, the newspapers. Same with HuffingtonPost and all the blog sites.
We could be looking at a future where it is the press release from the government telling you what they want you to think that plays a bigger role, plus maybe a lil bit of conspiracy theory thrown in for good measure.
- boobs0
I used to be a very, very avid newspaper reader. But I haven't subscribed to one in over 10 years.
I want news. Not papers.
- ********0
I only buy The Sunday Times, nothing in the week. I only do so because my partner wants to read it. I personally find the huge slab of wood pulp quite offensive, particularly as we're only going to read 15% of it and what I do read could have been found online. We have a weekly argument about buying it now.
- ********0
@ukit
the new york times ran a story a couple of months ago about a privately funded NGO employing a roster of investigative journalists. this billionaire couple apparently had the same concern as you; the journalists were free to explore whatever they liked, the idea was to then pitch the stories to traditional media networks, to make them public. the press today hardly does any research anyway, they mostly work with the input/spin of public relations people. be it the government people, corporations, associations or other NGOs of some kind.
- dog_opus0
"This is what you get when you mess with us."
"You do it to yourself, you do."
- janne760
Almost all major Dutch newspapers are in dire shit lately..
- colin_s0
ukit-
i agree, for the most part. ariana huffington won't be touting blogging as being so important when there's no news to have an opinion on anymore.unfortunately i think that, as the media is pretty loathed in the eye of the public, this is going to be one of those things that the public really won't care about as the consequences of a lacking free press are not evident in the day to day life of americans. the first amendment has set such a prestigious standard, and it's about to all go down the toilet.
there has to be a viable distribution model out there somewhere, but i'll be damned if i can think of one.
- BattleAxe0
I had a subscription to the local paper, after a while they started to pile up, so I canceled, they called me to try n keep me and I said I usually read the main stories on there website and that I would not need the paper ,
at work we are building web apps for nearly every kind of paper procedure , no one wants to do things on paper anymore
lots of pros and cons still but, paper is the new black and white film