6/14/12

THE END OF JOURNALISM



Fit To Print examines the on-going crisis within the U.S. newspaper industry and its impact on local investigative reporting. The film includes interviews from reporters, staff members, and media experts within several major U.S. newspapers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, among others.
Through interviews with former executives at the leading newspaper companies, we illustrate a change in business practices, beginning in the 1960s. Newspapers became less a public service than a business enterprise designed to please stockholders. Unfortunately, newspaper companies historically neglected investment in new technologies and expanded classified advertising online despite direct proposals from major internet search engine companies and advertising entrepreneurs. They missed their opportunity and have cut their staffs to compensate for the monetary losses.

this is a response from a reader @ huffingtonpost-

Under the panoply of lost careers and whole industries torn asunder, why news reporters feel particularly exempt is beyond reason, especially since this very industry conspired with, or generally failed to properly sound the alarm of the impending collapse.

Though I don't blame these journalist directly, they did happened to work at the nation's (world's) largest and most influential papers that didn't do its' self-ascribed position as guardians of truth and a fourth branch in check on government.

Lately, they've used the public airways as individuals and a collective to constantly beat the drum of victimhood. They claim they're principle targets of government, as victims of crime groups or warlords, errant munitions in theaters of war and of the internet and the various rouge bloggers and content stealing consumers. Everywhere a victim. Not the Libyans or Syrians. Nor the Northern Mexicans or Somalians. No, not the Iraqis or Afghans. Not even the readership of the NY Times and the up coming Iraq War. No one but the press with its self-inflicted wounds are victims.

Welcome to the rest of us!
ApprxAm
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