Neo's opinions always matter to me. I doubt he interpreted it the way you did.
some quotes you had read by a few people.
More than a few people have been airing their views on the dangers of online publishing. And they tend to be prominent in journalist circles.
"We were confident about journalism when we controlled who published. … But now that anybody with a Web site and fifty bucks can be a communicator, we don't know how to distinguish ourselves from our new, pseudo competitors. Instead, all too often we sadly try to imitate them."
— Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Pew Charitable Trusts' Project for Excellence in Journalism, vice chair of the Committee of Concerned Journalists.
"Other media that do not share newspaper standards are recasting the definitions of news. But we do not have to be pulled along. … The newest news dispenser, the runaway Internet, makes a journalist out of anybody who has a modem. It values speed and sensationalism above accuracy. New media will not accept our standards. We are foolish to treat them as if they have."
— Sandra Mims Rowe, publisher of the Portland Oregonian, former president of the American Society for Newspaper Editors
"If newspapers want to draw large numbers of visitors to their sites so they can charge advertisers accordingly, they have to compete with other sites that often have much lower -- or no -- journalistic standards. Speed is the
name of the Internet game, and as journalists in every medium have long known, speed is often the enemy of accuracy."
— David Shaw, Pulitzer Prize-winning media critic for the L.A. Times
By the way, the BBC reported tonight that Michael Moore is the author of IBM and the Holocaust, which of course, he is not. Where are the fact checkers and editors? <gg>
The writer's previous targets have included computer giant IBM in his book IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation and the US Drug Enforcement Agency.
news.bbc.co.uk
One sign the internet is thriving is the NY Times says its dying.
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