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drkohler said:
Which ironically makes you part of the problem. When it was the custom to read at least a good newspaper every morning, there was enough money for the newspapers to do hire and keep good journalists. Once the subscriber count gets down to a critical mass, the newspaper either folds or gets bought up by a "sugardaddy" - and good journalism goes out the door, never to return. Nowadays, everybody starts her/his own "blog" and considers her/himself a journalist. Since young people are reading each other's blogs now instead of the few good newspapers left, they never learn what good journalism is. If they grew up watching Fox News, then the catastrophy is complete. |
I guess my generation killed the newspaper. I've never had a newspaper subscription to begin with. I went from reading my parents newspapers to getting my news online. Next to tv and documentaries which used to be better. Or maybe my vision is skewed. I grew up in the Netherlands with NOS journaal and NOVA. After moving to Canada I didn't find anything of similar quality. It might be gone in the Netherlands too. (NOVA documentaries are no longer made) I watched NOVA online for a while, as well as reading NRC online for world news until I got kids that is. Online news was never as satisfying as sitting down with a real newspaper on a long flight though. At home I simply have better things to do.
Your world shrinks when you get kids. I guess I will get interested in world affairs again when they grow up a bit.
Online news isn't all bad though. It's very easy to get different sides of the story. The 'truth' however, who knows. It was certainly interesting to see the difference on a daily basis between Dutch reporting of world events and Canadian + American reporting on the same events.
