Comments on: Newspapers and Journalists Scared by New Media?

By: Medyum

Medyum — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:35:01 +0000

Oh well the constant thing in this world is change. As you said new media is not destroying real journalist, it is becoming part of it and changing it at the same time. So just be it.

By: yosafat

yosafat — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:33:41 +0000

i hope not all major newspaper do that. that will discourage people to write.

By: ayman

ayman — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:08:28 +0000

good work

By: R Edward Vernon

R Edward Vernon — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:25:10 +0000

This has everything to do with print media dying and blogs cutting in to their ad profits. I don’t see him mentioning any of the real stories that got published on blogs and microblogs first. Long before print media could do so. On the net we have the ability to communicate instantly. Newspapers and periodicals don’t. They better figure out a way to work with it or embrace it. But I have a feeling they’re going to take the same approach big music and movies did. Trying to swim upstream instead of going with the flow. And it’s going to be to their own demise. We’re already seeing it now.

In the end it all boils down to the money. The average man can now take on the NY Times. And here’s the proof…

By: Phil Owens

Phil Owens — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:44:54 +0000

Print had its day for 400 years…but like technologies before…it was replaced. Heck, I don’t think I even have a pen or pencil in my apartment. I know I don’t have one in my laptop bag…and that can be a problem one or two times per year.

The “press” never was meant to be seen as unbiased. However, 40 years ago, a young elite brazenly decided that, since the majority of the western world agreed with them on the sexual revolution + stopping big tobacco, DDT and asbestos…they were “unbiased” and “on the right side of history” in all the extra opinions they had or were to develop.

When conservative newspapers came out, they at least admitted their bias, but the radical left rags kept saying with a straight face that they were neutral, just following the course of history and had “no liberal bias”.

This grew to insane proportions. I actually had a famous NYTimes reporter apologize on my blog in 2006 for a story he was bylined for that had been completely rewritten by his editors in order to make white heterosexual US males look bad. This bias was repeated by McClatchy editors on the same subject matter, another young male reporter saw his work completely rewritten and he could say nothing because he needed to feed his family.

Its not so much the corporations that control newspapers that made them such dishonest propaganda machines. There was a certain type of person who found jobs as editors. These are the people who are being permanently defrocked. Corporations will find other things to invest in and real journalists will be freed from the shackles of ideologue editors.

By the way, Twitter also frees people from the shackles of ideologue monitors at forums or ideologue editors at aggregate blogs that deal with certain topics.