Media There’s an Enormous Change Taking Place in this Country
posted by September 26 at 7:13 AM
onIn a recent Q&A, superstar investigative reporter Seymour Hersh had this to say about daily newspapers:
There is an enormous change taking place in this country in journalism. And it is online. We are eventually — and I hate to tell this to The New York Times or the Washington Post — we are going to have online newspapers, and they are going to be spectacular. And they are really going to cut into daily journalism.I’ve been working for The New Yorker recently since ‘93. In the beginning, not that long ago, when I had a big story you made a good effort to get the Associated Press and UPI and The New York Times to write little stories about what you are writing about. Couldn’t care less now. It doesn’t matter, because I’ll write a story, and The New Yorker will get hundreds of thousands, if not many more, of hits in the next day. Once it’s online, we just get flooded.
So, we have a vibrant, new way of communicating in America. We haven’t come to terms with it. I don’t think much of a lot of the stuff that is out there. But there are a lot of people doing very, very good stuff.
Thanks for the heads up, Tom.
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This is kind of a "No Shit" sort of statement, is it not?
That man has always had a firm grasp of the obvious.
And Josh is what counts as "alternative" media in Seattle? Shit, the Stranger is as mainstream as the PI or the Times.
I hope for Seymour's sake that this interview is from 1998.
And what's that thing Hersh is holding in his hand in the picture???
Josh, I appreciate your self-referential posts on blogs/newspapers. As for your stylized opinions and arts/sports aesthetic commentaries, it still gets filed under BS:
"appeared to be nothing more"
"aggro statement"
"add fuel to the fire"
if you want to include sophmoric fiction to your reporting, keep it up
Rave on cats, I'm with ya.
And don't forget, Seymour, Seattle's favorite non-candidate for president Al Gore invented the replacement of newspapers.
Gotta give him props...that darn Ralph Nader just ruins everything...golly!
Who's Tom?
Ignorant hipsters up early. Sy Hersh is out there investigating the plans for Cheney's next war, while you look for new places to post "zzzz" or "yaaawnnn".
Tell me more of this fascinating com-poo-ter.
Patrick @8:
Sorry, Patrick, to let you in on a little inconvenient truth, but Al Gore never said he invented the Internet. As a member of Congress, however, he did play a critical role in making the Internet the public network it is today. From Vanity Fair:
I'm with 10, also, I wouldn't be surprised if Hersh's comments were directed more towards journalists then the public at large, they're the ones that are grasping on anything to justify their jobs right now
Seymour who?
@12 - this is correct. I was at SFU, and we and UBC used it. Gingrich was just a whiner, Gore actually did stuff.
But does he think the horseless carriage will ever really replace the horse in our hearts (and rectums)?
We're all running our mouths now, making fun of old people that are behind the curve on understanding technology, but in a few decades each of us will be that old, out-of-touch person and the youngsters will be running rings around us.
Not to say we should stop doing it.
Texting is so last century.
wow, that hadn't even occurred to me.
Where do I go to get a copy of this internet thing? It sounds like it's worth checking out!
The Stranger is light years ahead of the other Newspapers with Slog. We can read about what The Stranger staff ate for dinner last night, and get their commentary on Seattle Arts and Politics. The synergy is there, and Dan Savage as Directing Editor will make The Stranger the new media darling of all America. Props to everyone at The Stranger. The Stranger has found the formula for online infotainment.
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