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1. Thanks to the Christian Science Monitor

Mon Nov 12, 2012, 07:02 PM

Nov 2012

Thanks for posting this excellent article. What can we do about losing good newspapers? Most of the ones left are owned by conservative corporations so the national news is skewed and lifted from other sources, and they cannot afford to report local news and issues that we need to be informed. Of those newspapers online I wonder if young people are reading them; we have to pay to read the good articles and opinions in NYTimes, WashPost, LaTimes, Wall Street Journal and most of the rest. All my life I have paid for delivery of newspapers but can no longer afford the cost, even though they are filled with expensive ads. Even our local alternative free paper in Denver is still alive only because most of its ads are for sex and cigarettes! How can we have good citizens when they cannot get good information even with all the technology?

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Is the death of newspapers the end of good citizenship? (CS Monitor) [View all] pinto Nov 2012 OP

Thanks to the Christian Science Monitor locks Nov 2012 #1

One of the stalwarts of old media complaining about the fate of old media ProgressiveProfessor Nov 2012 #2

The CSM is one of a few orgs that still maintains a network of international reporting sites. pinto Nov 2012 #3

Professional Journalism is an oxymoron ProgressiveProfessor Nov 2012 #4

So what does Amy Goodman do for a living, or Greg Palast? mojowork_n Nov 2012 #5

Media figures ProgressiveProfessor Nov 2012 #8

Hmmmm.... mojowork_n Nov 2012 #9

With the emergence of web based news, the concept of what is journalism and who is a journalist has ProgressiveProfessor Nov 2012 #10

Politifact. mojowork_n Nov 2012 #13

The web has really lowered the bar for low cost publication ProgressiveProfessor Nov 2012 #14

PS mojowork_n Nov 2012 #15

So, what is journalism? pinto Nov 2012 #7

a bad lie? ProgressiveProfessor Nov 2012 #11

Brain-Dead Cynicism. (nt) Paladin Nov 2012 #16

Another Pegler supporter I see ProgressiveProfessor Nov 2012 #17

Oh, OK. That clarifies it. mojowork_n Nov 2012 #18

Actually I was going to cite the case, decided not to, and miseditied it. I have since corrected it ProgressiveProfessor Nov 2012 #19

good citizenship daisiebell Nov 2012 #6

Why does the format/media matter? ProgressiveProfessor Nov 2012 #12

Format MisterScruffles Nov 2012 #22

Good article, but there are 2 conflated issues here jade3000 Nov 2012 #20

only daily media floods the zone roseBudd Nov 2012 #21

huh!? what does this even mean? jade3000 Nov 2012 #23

Sends reporters to cover everything at every city hall, every meeting... roseBudd Nov 2012 #24

Thanks! jade3000 Nov 2012 #25

Yeah I picked it up in some article about newspapers and how what they do is nothing like... roseBudd Nov 2012 #26