“…journalism, as a field, is as addled as an addict, gaunt, wasted, and twitchy, its pockets as empty as its nights are sleepless”
In the past half century, and especially in the past two decades, journalism itself—the...
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“In any profession, … members have a tendency to equate provisional solutions to particular problems with deep truths about the world”
In any profession, particularly one that has existed long enough that no one can...
“For people with a professional outlook, it’s hard to understand how something that isn’t professionally produced could affect them-not only is the internet not a newspaper, it isn’t a business, or even an institution”
Many people in the newspaper business, the same people who worried about the effects...
“The old bargain of the newspaper-world news lumped in with horoscopes and ads from the pizza parlor has now ended”
What holds a newspaper together is primarily the cost of paper, ink, and distribution;...
“Digital means of distributing words and images have robbed newspapers of the coherence they formerly had…”
Digital means of distributing words and images have robbed newspapers of the coherence they...