Since very soon the NYT will be the only newspaper left, we better start giving a crap again.
I hope the old adage what goes around comes around is true and their is a revival of the regional paper with international focus.
If the Kansas city Star could send Ernest hemingway to WW1 in 1915 and today only the NYT and USA Today can send a pemanant staff to Iraq - then we've lost something. That something is news gatherers. Sure we have more outlets than ever - but less gathering ( organized - not random web casting)
If it were only that easy. Citizen journalism, declining readership, shifting demographics, and a general splintering of media are all hastening the eclipse of newspapers as we know them. The future is looking increasingly like gawker-style aggregation of dubious opinion...with better financing. News gatherers will only multiply. Heck, just look at the tidal wave of "content" made available by students at VT during the chaos. The new champions of future-news will be mercenary editors that can do it all, for hire.
Print culture needs to die a little to free up capital for a new breed of gatherer.
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Since very soon the NYT will be the only newspaper left, we better start giving a crap again.
I hope the old adage what goes around comes around is true and their is a revival of the regional paper with international focus.
If the Kansas city Star could send Ernest hemingway to WW1 in 1915 and today only the NYT and USA Today can send a pemanant staff to Iraq - then we've lost something. That something is news gatherers. Sure we have more outlets than ever - but less gathering ( organized - not random web casting)
"...we better start giving a crap again."
If it were only that easy. Citizen journalism, declining readership, shifting demographics, and a general splintering of media are all hastening the eclipse of newspapers as we know them. The future is looking increasingly like gawker-style aggregation of dubious opinion...with better financing. News gatherers will only multiply. Heck, just look at the tidal wave of "content" made available by students at VT during the chaos. The new champions of future-news will be mercenary editors that can do it all, for hire.
Print culture needs to die a little to free up capital for a new breed of gatherer.
Wow, that was very illuminating. Thanks for the post.
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