Those who regularly read this blog were born too late and too far away to understand why journalists mourn the death of "traditional" media like newspapers, news magazines and television news. But Michael Gerson, writing on Journalism's slow, sad death, wasn't. In a Washington Post op-ed piece, he points out that "what is passing is not only a business but a profession -- the journalistic tradition of nonpartisan objectivity." This was a profession that had "rules about facts and sources and editors who enforced standards." Reporting was a mix of public service and adventure undertaken by people who -- for the most part -- tried to report the news without bias or inaccuracy. A tough assignment, anywhere.
What we have now is "a kind of intellectual theft," he writes, by news aggregators (like Yahoo News!) and bloggers, freely sharing their own personal take on whatever without bothering to collect news or investigate. Today you can get an overload of information -- fast -- almost entirely from sources that agree with you. What could have been a window on the world has become tunnel vision.
Good luck, kids.
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I agree Michael Gerson when he said:there is "a kind of intellectual theft,"
Readers and advertisers are migrating to the papers' Web sites or to other sources of information on the Internet. A good way to prevent the death of mainstream media journalism would be to recognize its pervasive liberal bias, not largely ignore the problem, as this author does. You can't solve a problem until you face its existence. Newspapers, network broadcasters, magazines need to get back to being real journalists and strive to report the facts objectively. For me Igot all the news from my computer and my BlackBerry.
This generation is the Generation of Technology, all what they do is on laptops or smart phones. the new generation are far away from newspapers and reading. what yahoo news and other bloggers does is bringing these news to people who would spend all their time in front of technology. i don't think they are stealing the news but they are delivering it to their target audience..
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