I'm terrified by the direction the press is taking. It's not just leaning right, it's crashing right. Not enough integrity, not enough adherence to journalistic ethics, in a time when we're bombarded with lies and self-serving propaganda.
I agree about local news coverage. It's a casualty of advertising, I'm afraid. Local newspapers ca…
I'm terrified by the direction the press is taking. It's not just leaning right, it's crashing right. Not enough integrity, not enough adherence to journalistic ethics, in a time when we're bombarded with lies and self-serving propaganda.
I agree about local news coverage. It's a casualty of advertising, I'm afraid. Local newspapers can't compete unless they bring in advertising and it become a vicious circle when they have to cut back on news space because advertising is down. When the paper gets smaller fewer people read it--and more advertisers leave. Most of them run at a loss now.
The whole situation is awful. The founding fathers (even though I hate that phrase) totally understood the importance of the press: "That the freedom of the press is one of the greatest bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.”
Even John McCain recognized its essential nature: “I hate the press. But the fact is, we need you. … If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you need to have a free and many times an adversarial press.”
I wish more people were students of history. Since I live in Texas, I have to specify true history. ;-)
My biggest fear, of all the fears that keep me awake at night, is the recklessness of the press when we need them to shine light on the truth. It terrifies me that nothing we say can shame them. They hold our fate in their hands and they feel no obligation.
I just can't understand it. It can't just be profits driving them. It's as if they feel nothing for this country and the people in it.
I'm terrified by the direction the press is taking. It's not just leaning right, it's crashing right. Not enough integrity, not enough adherence to journalistic ethics, in a time when we're bombarded with lies and self-serving propaganda.
I agree about local news coverage. It's a casualty of advertising, I'm afraid. Local newspapers can't compete unless they bring in advertising and it become a vicious circle when they have to cut back on news space because advertising is down. When the paper gets smaller fewer people read it--and more advertisers leave. Most of them run at a loss now.
The whole situation is awful. The founding fathers (even though I hate that phrase) totally understood the importance of the press: "That the freedom of the press is one of the greatest bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.”
Even John McCain recognized its essential nature: “I hate the press. But the fact is, we need you. … If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you need to have a free and many times an adversarial press.”
I wish more people were students of history. Since I live in Texas, I have to specify true history. ;-)
My biggest fear, of all the fears that keep me awake at night, is the recklessness of the press when we need them to shine light on the truth. It terrifies me that nothing we say can shame them. They hold our fate in their hands and they feel no obligation.
I just can't understand it. It can't just be profits driving them. It's as if they feel nothing for this country and the people in it.