Not Waiting For The Asteroid

o/t kate, but i think you are more likely to post this than Warren kinsella: (via nationalnewswatch)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/feb/13/michael-ignatieff-canada-economy/print

"The Duluth News Tribune and the St. Paul Pioneer Press will work with the University of Minnesota's School of Journalism and Mass Communication to help staff adapt to an increasingly Internet-based industry."

I don't know whether to laugh,or cry.These "journalism experts" need training into how to use the internet? Jezzzzuuzzz H Christ. A bomb can go off in OZ,and we know about it within 5 minutes via the net,but these clowns wait for Reuteurs or AP to clue them in? That dinosaur isn't dying fast enough.

Typical elite leftists trying to build cushiony landing pads for their 'workforce'. You don't have to retrain the newsroom staff: they already know how to write, presumably, and transitioning to online writing should NOT require taxpayer money. The people who need to be retrained are the guys running the presses: you know, the ones who didn't go to J school, and probably voted for McCain.

If you taught them ethics you may be farther ahead. I don't know all the papers mentioned but I have worked in an environment that valued conformity as THE big issue. If there is no more than the headline..I saw it before I bought. If it is a glorified Canada Press or AP I read it already.

Pay someone to do something that everyone else figured out on their own. Genius!

they have to transfer the money to buy good "Owebama" press in less than an Obvious way:-))))

Another Clarence Louie - sound of mind, uplifting in action and getting positive results when they are in charge. To bad they are both racists!

Duluth is Leftoid heaven. I know, I lived there. I met Paul Wellstone walking down the street twice. Should have decked him right then and there. The city government was a mini Mafia until a conservative took office.

How come we can't make the T-Star go boom too!?

Sorry for being O/T - Nancy Pelosi will soon be draining the new national health care program in the US with knee and hip replacement surgery. She's been bouncing up and down like a toilet seat at a Beer and Taco Fest while giving DumbObama standing ovations during his Address to Congress.

Back to the soon to be dead MSM...

These journalists that need training to operate the internet are probably the same idiots who cannot figure out how to properly apply the stickes to the licence plate. Instructions will not help them.

Related item: Kate if you go to the NRO site you will find a jim Geraghty post where he highlights an AP news report on BOs speech an hour BEFORE he actually gave it. (I would provide thelink but I am on my iPhone)

Via Robinsonandlong

Of course they have to cling to the hope that there is some magic that will cure them.

Expect Canadas CRTC to help out(think taxes) MSM from going under...the internet service providers will be recquired to submit a pound of their flesh and of course this will be passed on to the consumer, more of our tax dollars for the MSM...WOW im getting P.O. and depressed.

Re: "to help staff adapt to an increasingly Internet-based industry." This does have a weird ring to it -- like isn't this something they should have been on to about five years ago?

" This does have a weird ring to it -- like isn't this something they should have been on to about five years ago?

Posted by: LindaL at February 24, 2009 11:31 PM "

Linda. The MSM is SO far behind when it comes to critical thinking,they still think they are in first.Why would that brand spanking new internet thingie be any different?

Instead of re-training, the media just needs a reality check. That means recognizing that they no longer set the public agenda.

They lost that ability when people began to communicate with each other via the Internet and blogs like this one. The MSM, however, continue to act like this revolution in communications never happened. Most of them seem to believe that they are still the agenda-setters in society. If they just ignore something, it is not real or is unimportant. If they become advocates for a cause, then that cause is right and represents the public interest.

I am not sure these dinosaurs can adapt to an environment where their credibility is challenged daily by people with access to alternative information sources.

I saw the news about the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday; it made my day. Couldn't happen to a more deserving newspaper. The Chronicle combines all the worst elements of the New York Times with the worst elements of the National Enquirer, and is worse on fact-checking than either.

OK, yummy grant money. Here comes the Delisle Institute for Advanced Blogging.

Anyone else see the silver lining here? If they don't have the SFC to distort the news and misrepresent the facts, all the people living in the People's Republic of Northern Kalifornia (PRNK) might have to start seeking out the facts on their own. Of course, that's dangerous - they might begin to think! But since, as some have pointed out, the PRNK contains more fruits and nuts than a train-load of granola, it might be a good thing.

That these news folks didn't have the gumption or ability to have already adapted to the web with some ability to use it says that they are pretty lame to begin with.

Even after the training, they will still lie and distort anything they don't agree with.

Nothing new, just a move to a more competitive medium where they will be lost more than they already are.

Waste of time and money.