Comments on: Roland Hedley Lives! http://rhetorica.net/archives/6838.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:09:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: acline http://rhetorica.net/archives/6838.html/comment-page-1#comment-5589 acline Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:07:22 +0000 http://localhost/wpp3/?p=6838#comment-5589 Tim... I don't mean to suggest simplistic reasons. Those you cite play a huge roll, too. But it is true that it is difficult to practice good journalism with few resources no matter how we got to this point. Tim… I don’t mean to suggest simplistic reasons. Those you cite play a huge roll, too. But it is true that it is difficult to practice good journalism with few resources no matter how we got to this point.

]]> By: Tim http://rhetorica.net/archives/6838.html/comment-page-1#comment-5588 Tim Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:17:35 +0000 http://localhost/wpp3/?p=6838#comment-5588 Capitalism didn't ruin journalism, journalists did. For decades journalists complained about their costumers (<a href="http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2008/07/08/big_daddy_left.html#comment51734">people are idiots who don't want to read</a>, people are partisans who don't want to hear inconvenient truths, shooting-the-messenger, etc.) as their costumers complained about poor quality (inaccuracy, misleading stories based on poor understanding, etc.). During the last decade, journalists mocked the Internet as a platform for journalism, and their customer base shrank further. Capitalism didn’t ruin journalism, journalists did. For decades journalists complained about their costumers (people are idiots who don’t want to read, people are partisans who don’t want to hear inconvenient truths, shooting-the-messenger, etc.) as their costumers complained about poor quality (inaccuracy, misleading stories based on poor understanding, etc.).

During the last decade, journalists mocked the Internet as a platform for journalism, and their customer base shrank further.

]]> By: acline http://rhetorica.net/archives/6838.html/comment-page-1#comment-5587 acline Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:05:15 +0000 http://localhost/wpp3/?p=6838#comment-5587 Evans... Certainly. My question should be read far more as a desire than a description of what might actually occur. Evans… Certainly. My question should be read far more as a desire than a description of what might actually occur.

]]> By: Evans http://rhetorica.net/archives/6838.html/comment-page-1#comment-5586 Evans Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:15:03 +0000 http://localhost/wpp3/?p=6838#comment-5586 "Could it be that the brick-and-mortar part of the news organization can begin to shrink? How much money could be saved and then plowed back into what really counts? The journalism." If the newspapers weren't publicly traded one might believe this was about plowing more money into journalism. Under the circumstances it is far more likely this is intended to keep plowing money into the pockets of the owners and stockholders. “Could it be that the brick-and-mortar part of the news organization can begin to shrink? How much money could be saved and then plowed back into what really counts? The journalism.”

If the newspapers weren’t publicly traded one might believe this was about plowing more money into journalism. Under the circumstances it is far more likely this is intended to keep plowing money into the pockets of the owners and stockholders.

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