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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Without Newspapers

Fascinating forum held at the National Press Club about the possibility of major newspapers going under.

What would your community look like without a newspaper?

Where would you get your information? From television or radio or the Internet?

Would it surprise you to know that those mediums get most of their information from newspapers?

"What would you be willing to do as citizens in order to get information with ink?" asked Roy Peter Clark of the Poynter Institute.

"Would you be able to think of news gathering not as some highly profitable venture, but as a public utility?" Clark continued. "I think that more and more power will go unchecked in communities when the watchdog is euthanized."

Who is going to uncover government corruption? That part-time blogger down the street?

Read more at the link below:

Possibility of Cities Without Newspapers Raises Questions of Where People Will Get News and What They Will Pay For

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

"I think that more and more power will go unchecked in communities when the watchdog is euthanized."

The press is doing it to themselves with all their bias and giving a free pass to the Democrats. We may be better off without them!

Anonymous said...

I would hate to see a world without newspapers. It would be far too glum.

But I suggest the problem with many newspapers - in fact, the problem with most media today - is homogenization. They all look alike. They all report the same stories, mostly fed to them by the same sources. They have little soul or heart.

Which is why popular blogs like yours, Tony, have become a new public medium of choice. When newspapers return to what they did first, and what they did best - serve their communities - I propose they'll be in the ascendency again.

TONY PHYRILLAS said...

Thanks for the kind words about my blog, Joe. You make a good point about newspapers. For those who don't know, Joe Zlomek publishes an excellent community blog in the Pottstown area. Check it out at http://sanatoga.wordpress.com/