How to Save Your Newspaper
By Walter Isaacson Thursday, Feb. 05, 2009
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During the past few months, the crisis in journalism has reached meltdown proportions. It is now possible to contemplate a time when some major cities will no longer have a newspaper and when magazines and network-news operations will employ no more than a handful of reporters.
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If there ever was a business that needs to take responsibility for its demise, its newspapers. They have become so politicized (take the Daily Astorian, for example) people have to read more than one just to get an idea of what actually happened. Even that has become more difficult in small towns because most of the paper is written by news services far away from the town. Additionally, newspapers used to have editors who were well known and respected in the community. These guys wrote serious, fact based editorials that deserved attention and they were careful not to print things that were untrue or simply demeaning for the sake of being demeaning. In the last 15 years or so, all these guys must have died, because what we have now are editors who have an average education, little worldly experience and know no more about a particular subject than you or me. But, they think they must rouse the rabble with unverified information while telling us all how to think. And, they get paid by the word each week. Editorials, as well as news articles, should be important, well considered, accurate and have a considered impact. Simply owning a newspaper should never be sufficient grounds for writing editorials or news articles.
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