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RE: It's time to kill the idea that newspapers are essential
I majored in journalism and worked a variety of print jobs that failed to pay enough to make a living. Journalism as a whole is a shrinking profession, supplanted increasingly by the blogosphere and divisive political pundits. Those who make a full-time profession out of journalism undoubtedly number fewer than doctors, lawyers, teachers, janitors ...
Posted to Press Box by NewsView on March 30, 2009
Fark
Back in the 1985 Neil Postman warned of the dawn of this age of non-news in his book Amusing Ourselves To Death: Public Discourse In The Age of Show Business. It's still worth a read for its analysis of the impact of fark on America's ways of thinking.
Posted to Press Box by Doc R on June 5, 2008
Slate Running to the Defense of Murdoch's Rep
Rupert Murdoch is a major, worldwide corporatized Media Baron who is wealthy beyond comprehension of most Americans and certainly most people worldwide. Rupert Murdoch owns a media empire that just keeps expanding, and which now includes the Wall Street Journal, and apparently now, New York City's Newsday. I would like to see a complete list of ...
Posted to Press Box by MichaelBernard1 on April 24, 2008