Friday, December 01, 2006
Hey, Walter, why did you leave journalism?
If you can call up this link, you will see a lot of interesting subtleties in this story. I originally posted the full link. However, the length of this link was causing problems in my blog so you I had to cut the link into two pieces. You'll have to thus paste it into your browser. Many apologies!! It's worth the trouble.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/politics/candidates/articles/
and then paste after that
2006/12/01/patrick_says_many_in_media_missed_key_dynamic_of_his_campaign/
Notice the reaction to his speech.
So maybe that's not surprising. I wouldn't expect newspaper people to applaud a call for optimism. But when he said that newsroom budget cuts affected the quality of the reporting, that room should have stood up and cheered. It didn't. Why? Because the industry is involved in a conspiracy to claim that you can still continue to suck profits from a paper, reduce the quality of the journalism, and still serve the First Amendment.
Enough. If you want to read more about the decline of journalism under business pressures, be sure to check out a book I have previous recommended, The Vanishing Newspaper.
Forward this post
http://www.boston.com/news/local/politics/candidates/articles/
and then paste after that
2006/12/01/patrick_says_many_in_media_missed_key_dynamic_of_his_campaign/
Notice the reaction to his speech.
So maybe that's not surprising. I wouldn't expect newspaper people to applaud a call for optimism. But when he said that newsroom budget cuts affected the quality of the reporting, that room should have stood up and cheered. It didn't. Why? Because the industry is involved in a conspiracy to claim that you can still continue to suck profits from a paper, reduce the quality of the journalism, and still serve the First Amendment.
Enough. If you want to read more about the decline of journalism under business pressures, be sure to check out a book I have previous recommended, The Vanishing Newspaper.
