Slog - Comments on There's an Enormous Change Taking Place in this Country http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i In 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... Copyright 2008 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:13:01 -0800 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:47:54 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Suck it Jesus and Mohammed This is kind of a "No Shit" sort of statement, is it not?

]]> Suck it Jesus and Mohammed http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812059 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812059 Media Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:30:58 -0800 Comment by Heather That man has always had a firm grasp of the obvious.

]]> Heather http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812067 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812067 Media Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:37:07 -0800 Comment by Just Me And Josh is what counts as "alternative" media in Seattle? Shit, the Stranger is as mainstream as the PI or the Times.

]]> Just Me http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812075 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812075 Media Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:48:09 -0800 Comment by JMR I hope for Seymour's sake that this interview is from 1998.

]]> JMR http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812078 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812078 Media Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:52:06 -0800 Comment by JMR And what's that thing Hersh is holding in his hand in the picture???

]]> JMR http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812081 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812081 Media Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:00:15 -0800 Comment by June Bee 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

]]> June Bee http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812083 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812083 Media Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:07:07 -0800 Comment by Josh Feit Rave on cats, I'm with ya.

]]> Josh Feit http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812086 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812086 Media Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:13:56 -0800 Comment by patrick 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!

]]> patrick http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812105 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812105 Media Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:38:01 -0800 Comment by Levislade Who's Tom?

]]> Levislade http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812115 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812115 Media Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:51:38 -0800 Comment by anna 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".

]]> anna http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812129 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812129 Media Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:03:10 -0800 Comment by mongo like slog Tell me more of this fascinating com-poo-ter.

]]> mongo like slog http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812153 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812153 Media Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:29:11 -0800 Comment by cressona Patrick @8:
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!


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:

In the 1970s, the Internet was a limited tool used by the Pentagon and universities for research. As a senator in the 80s, Gore sponsored two bills that turned this government program into an "information superhighway," a term Gore popularized, and made it accessible to all. Vinton Cerf, often called the father of the Internet, has claimed that the Internet would not be where it was without Gore's leadership on the issue. Even former Republican House speaker Newt Gingrich has said that "Gore is the person who, in the Congress, most systematically worked to make sure that we got to an Internet."

]]> cressona http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812158 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812158 Media Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:35:20 -0800 Comment by WA 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

]]> WA http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812163 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812163 Media Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:43:14 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Seymour who?

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812195 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812195 Media Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:18:57 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle @12 - this is correct. I was at SFU, and we and UBC used it. Gingrich was just a whiner, Gore actually did stuff.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812200 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812200 Media Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:20:49 -0800 Comment by Kiru Banzai But does he think the horseless carriage will ever really replace the horse in our hearts (and rectums)?

]]> Kiru Banzai http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812219 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812219 Media Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:36:33 -0800 Comment by JMR 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.

]]> JMR http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812241 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812241 Media Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:55:37 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Texting is so last century.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812306 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812306 Media Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:55:32 -0800 Comment by Kim wow, that hadn't even occurred to me.

]]> Kim http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812319 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812319 Media Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:10:34 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV Where do I go to get a copy of this internet thing? It sounds like it's worth checking out!

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812375 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812375 Media Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:57:11 -0800 Comment by Issur 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.

]]> Issur http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812817 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/theres_an_enormous_change_taking_place_i#c812817 Media Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:47:54 -0800