Four important flaws of journalism

I’m always rather pleased with the competence of news people. They might be idiots, however, and I’m just comfortable talking with them. But today we’re not in good economic times while newspapers and magazines have been in a depression for several years. Their answer to tight money, disappearing advertising, and declining circulations is to buy out the expensive veteran news staff and replace them with younger, greener people. Many medium sized newspapers use nothing but college interns to report on the same complex stories veterans used to cover. The point here is that the competence of the news media just ain’t what it used to be a mere five years ago. While this is great news for college journalism programs, it is bad news for American readers.

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Comment by Veronica Jabrocki — December 4, 2008 @ 7:42 pm
Really, really good. You sound great and never disappoint.

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