David Simon, As Profit Motive Guts Newspapers, Communities Lose Out
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| Gail Burton / AP Simon on the set of ‘The Wire’ in 2002. |
| David Simon, As Profit Motive Guts Newspapers, Communities Lose Out |
| Democracy Now | May 07, 2009 | JUAN GONZALEZ, Amy Goodman |
| High-end journalism is dying in America. And unless a new economic model is achieved, it will not be reborn on the web or anywhere else. The internet is a marvelous tool, and clearly it is the information delivery system of our future. But thus far, it does not deliver much first-generation reporting. Instead, it leeches that reporting from mainstream news publications, whereupon aggregating websites and bloggers contribute little more than repetition, commentary and froth. read more |
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