The steady drip of layoffs and buyouts, slowly desiccating once-vibrant newsrooms around the country, has also produced a reservoir of anger, sadness, fear, uncertainty—even some cautious optimism here and there—among reporters and editors who invested years, decades in some cases, of their lives to print journalism. We’ve asked anyone so inclined to channel these emotions, not into rant—although there will be a bit of that—but rather into reflection on what went wrong, and where we might go from here. We will publish one per day, under the headline “Parting Thoughts.” All of the letters we publish will be collected here.
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All the people suffering from newsroom cuts have my sympathy but they should not feel too sorry for themselves. As long ago as 1944 Oswald Garrison Villard wrote a book about newspaper trends. The title: The Disappearing Daily.
Martin Duggan
Posted by Martin Duggan on Sat 2 Aug 2008 at 05:35 PM
Some self-proclaimed "professional journalist" whined:
"In September of 1991, in the depths of the Bush-the-Father recession...
padikiller schools
Funny... I remember this as the "Democrats Who Controlled Congress Recession".
But then, I'm not a self-proclaimed "professional journalist" with a political axe to grind...
CJR is nothing but a liberal mouthpiece.
Stop with the juvenile hit journalism, stop with the name-calling and act like grown-ups.
Posted by padikiller on Sat 2 Aug 2008 at 11:17 PM
What happens when the wise, the the fathers and mothers with virtuous acumen for life and truth leave? What happens when the ones who stand between the transgressors and the moronic mortals of this world are suddenly erased off the desk of tutelary? I'll tell you what happens...mass extinction.
Posted by Jesus on Sat 12 Sep 2009 at 02:46 AM