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Washington Post Calls For Federal Funding Of Newspapers?
Techdirt —
... , along comes the Washington Post with an editorial saying it's time to have the federal government fund more journalism. I wonder how Watergate would have turned out if the Washington Post was relying on Nixon for cash... The editorial piece claims that no one is "filling the gap" left by fewer newspaper reporters, but presents no evidence whatsoever to support that. The market is changing, absolutely, but we're seeing all sorts of new, unique and innovative ways of covering the news -- often allowing much greater coverage than in the past. Getting ...
The future of news is entrepreneurial
BuzzMachine —
... a future to be built.
This is not the discussion we hear about the fate of news journalism. That discussion defaults too often to current models and old realities, to protection over creation, to fear over opportunity.
Columbia’s Reconstruction of Journalism report, in my view, gives up on the business prospects for news and resorts to what I believe are desperate measures – namely: the public option for news. The Washington Post has run two op-eds lately endorsing tax-supported journalism (pardon me for asking, but are things ...
If Newspapers Fail Will The United States Crumble?
The Blade by Ron Schenone, MVP —
... paid enough they would express your opinion if the price was right? Or was Citizen Kane really fictional?
I don’t know about you but I consider myself an intelligent person. So why is it that when the President of the United States addresses Congress, I need to be told by television news people what he just said? Have those who report the news become so arrogant that they need to treat the remainder of us as imbeciles?
What do you think? Comments welcome.
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