Denial is going to prove their last stupid decision.
Straightarrow aims at MSM news organizations
By JWM
John In Carolina
I’ve never taken a reader’s comment and made it a post. But I’m doing that now. I think you’ll see why when you read the comment.
But first, some background to the comment from a frequent visitor, Straightarrow.
Raleigh News & Observer executive editor for news Melanie Sill said she and an academic interested in how declining ad revenues influence public policy news reporting had a lot to talk about at lunch the other day. That’s because, as Sill tells it,
“investigative work (and) policy reporting (are) The
N&O's backbone.”
I posted and asked whether Sill and the academic had discussed recent instances of N&O front page, headline stories that was either explicitly false or left out extremely important information. I said that if investigative and policy reporting are The N&O’s “backbone,” it’s a badly fractured one.
Then came Straightarrow’s comment:
<<< The fracturing backbone of the print media could be the reason they are paraplegic, heading rapidly toward quadriplegia.
I prefer hard copy. I actually prefer the printed page to any other form of communication. Yet, I no longer subscribe to any newspaper or news magazine.
It has nothing to do with the plethora of alternatives, or the convenience or immediacy of those alternatives.
It has to do with the fact that I can no longer trust the print media, or for that matter, most broadcast media to report the news.
I cannot rely upon their accuracy, nor the depth of research to supply a whole story, nor their integrity to supply the facts untainted by personal or political agenda.
We hear a lot today about what is killing the newspaper business, and to a lesser extent the broadcast news business, and it almost always focuses on externals.
Denial is going to prove their last stupid decision.
What is killing them is the internal rot that makes them untrustworthy. They have lost the thinking public's trust, and soon they will lose the majority public's trust.
That is why their revenues are down. Advertisers don't want association with known frauds when they are trying to get the public to spend their money with them.
The Main Stream Media is becoming more and more exposed as frauds. It is fatal for a grifter to become known as one. >>>
I hope you will pass Straightarrow’s comment along to others. It deserves a much wider readership than it will get here.
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