http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2008/12/22/today_in_the_slow_death_of_new Comments On: Today in the Slow Death of Newspapers by Brendan Kiley en-us Copyright 2009 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:01 -0800 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:00:00 -0800 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by elswinger]]> Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:58:04 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Cat in Chicago]]> Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:16:27 -0800 The Stranger
Word!
Posted by Matt in Southampton]]> Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:50:45 -0800 The Stranger
And blogs are to blame for it?

In a capitalist society, a powerhouse of expertise and elitism (journalism) has been marginalized by AMATEURS?

Uh.... boohoo for newspapers. Maybe if they published things focused on ...oh, i don't know... news and commentary that is relevant, opinions that focused on both sides of the argument (eg. Dominic Holden's fabulous work on Drug War Bias) and maybe entertained a wider audience than shut in and recluses who don't know how to use a computer.

How do you compete in a digital age? Publish something that actually garners a better readership than online media. How many shrill commentaries in a thread can you stand to bear? How much time do you sprend reading them all? Please. Shit that is worth reading, you read.

The fact that news papers are falling by the wayside isn't a commentary on the dumbing down of society. Newspapers already accomplished that by focusing only on violent crimes (which are reported far out of proportion to their occurrence), "human interest stories" (which don't seem to focus on interest to many humans), and shoddy reporting just to make a deadline. If nothing happened today, don't fill dead space with drivel.

Wah. Blogs are the devil.

If newspapers can't fight a smidgen of competition, then they aren't a viable corporation and must respond to market forces.

Right? We all believe in capitalism and the right way to accomplish our economic objectives, right?

When newspapers published journalism of research and integrity everyday and not just research once a year that wins pulitzers, they were accredited sources. Now, newspapers run real journalism akin to TV sweeps.

No wonder. They're emulating their TV brethren.

Newspapers used to be respectable. Tell me how many pages in a news paper you read today and are grateful you bought that paper (ie learned something).

Who will the blogs the steal from? Primary sources. Those used to be newspapers. Now, that is changing. I don't think that is necessarily a bad thing.
Posted by Atlas]]> Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:09:10 -0800 The Stranger
When I clicked on 15 links and all but four of them went to another web page (NYT, the St. Louis Dispatch, etc.).

What The Huffington Post does is more above board than most other blogs.
Posted by elswinger]]> Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:20:08 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Andy Niable]]> Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:48:39 -0800 The Stranger

Posted by Dr_Awesome]]> Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:44:46 -0800 The Stranger
Now excuse me while I purchase another box of penis-enlargement pills.
Posted by Urgutha Forka]]> Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:56:43 -0800 The Stranger
1. Stop Google.
2. Take money from Google.
3. Give that money to me.
4. Anyone else who uses my stuff is also required to give me money. Like HuffPo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRTAZsh8Z…
Posted by Frank Blethen]]> Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:48:18 -0800 The Stranger I try to pay attention when I quote others. I like to put in one or two sentences and make sure they're "teasers" so the person actually follows the hyperlink rather than just getting the gist of the story from the quoted text.
Posted by Professional Quoter]]> Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:19:41 -0800 The Stranger Posted by JMS]]> Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:10:15 -0800 The Stranger