One thought on “Some Advice For The Media In The Internet Era”
With the exception of a few Sunday comics pages, I haven’t read the ‘news’ part of a paper in maybe 20 years. I simply got tired of their opinion of the news. I don’t need someone to start a story with lines like,
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“The unpopular war in Iraq rolls…”
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And as memory serves that was 2 days before we got into Baghdad, and I looked but now can’t find it. I remember it because my brother called me to ask if I’d seen it yet. But stuff like that is why I quit them all.
Before the plethora of internet news we’ve got now, I was already listening to BBC on PBS, and balancing it with what was passing for news on the big three. That way I felt like I was at least getting two slants on the events. And as bad as it was, 9/11 changes it all for me.
To see and hear and look at headlines, and see the vitriol aimed at GWB, while they were still digging for live people in NYC, was too much for me. And that is when it seemed to me that the internet news broke on my computer full time. I signed up for news alerts and with the exception better blogs, like this one, that’s my news gathering system. And without a doubt, IMO, Matt Drudge should be King of Interweb News.
He’s good, quick, fair, and accurate. All the things the newspapers ain’t!
With the exception of a few Sunday comics pages, I haven’t read the ‘news’ part of a paper in maybe 20 years. I simply got tired of their opinion of the news. I don’t need someone to start a story with lines like,
.
.
“The unpopular war in Iraq rolls…”
.
.
And as memory serves that was 2 days before we got into Baghdad, and I looked but now can’t find it. I remember it because my brother called me to ask if I’d seen it yet. But stuff like that is why I quit them all.
Before the plethora of internet news we’ve got now, I was already listening to BBC on PBS, and balancing it with what was passing for news on the big three. That way I felt like I was at least getting two slants on the events. And as bad as it was, 9/11 changes it all for me.
To see and hear and look at headlines, and see the vitriol aimed at GWB, while they were still digging for live people in NYC, was too much for me. And that is when it seemed to me that the internet news broke on my computer full time. I signed up for news alerts and with the exception better blogs, like this one, that’s my news gathering system. And without a doubt, IMO, Matt Drudge should be King of Interweb News.
He’s good, quick, fair, and accurate. All the things the newspapers ain’t!