"This profession has a social value that is currently not reflected in its market value."

Wow, they really don't get it at all do they.

John Nolte has it right. Question Period today made me want to throw up. What else do you expect when by their own polls last year they admit 80% of them are leftist.

hey wait a minute.. where have I heard this before? ;)

Absolute GOLD!!!

He more eloquently echoes precisely what I said yesterday about Gershon's "non-partisan objectivity" fiction!

Browsing the comments to the article is fascinating, they're getting hit from all shades of the political spectrum. It's becoming painful to watch like a slow motion train wreck, yet I find myself unable to turn away.

Guess what you get when you type "Googlegate"?

Let them die quietly - that way the majority of average schmucks will go to their door, or paperbox or coffee shop some morning soon and go "where the hell is my newspaper?". They - the consumer - shall reap what they have sown by wallowing in the filth that their porcine hides have become so accustomed to.

Don't always blame the source. There is no proliferation without an audience of blind, stupid people.

"What profession could (Gershon) possibly be talking about? Certainly not the same profession who set out to destroy Clarence Thomas, circled the wagons to save President Clinton, summoned all their resources to lose the war in Iraq, told us more about the background of an unemployed plumber than our current President...."

You know, when you put it that way....

The decline and decay of Lame Stream Media however meaningful, provides only a stepping stone for bigger crisis of authority. Interesting article on the subject is here.

"National governments have controlled the flow of information and the money supply for centuries. But with the advent of digits, the cost of maintaining this control keeps getting higher. The cost of communications keeps falling. Therefore, the cost of maintaining control increases. This is the battle over legitimacy."

"Today, however, low-cost communications technology, especially free videos, has placed in the hands of creative individuals the ability to create public relations havoc for the Establishment. The Establishment does not know what to do about this."

From the comments, this from LauraAgain who considered becoming a journalist: "I wanted to report a story, not push a microphone in someone's face and get a soundbite that I could later twist to my liking."

In recent years, facts and objectivity have gone out the window in favour of "viewpoint" journalism (I think there's another name for it, which I forget offhand), and this is a big part of the problem. It's yet another manifestation of the Kantian-Hegelian-Marxist fairy-tales philosophy and its offshoots. People are much less likely to hold a high opinion of reporters if they think they're being lied to.

Yup, it'll be climatastrophe MkIII, post Ozone layer & AGW, thanks to BIG $cience ...

"What else do you expect when by their own polls last year they admit 80% of them are leftist."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC48pGrsXiE

From 1985. Everybody was warned.

Watch and distribute.

Awaiting the ABC/BBC/CBC et al to switch off their legacy transmitters, all in the name of AGW ...

I've heard of cow-tipping, but never dinosaur-tipping.

Unless they had a recent accident at the Calgary Zoo.

Did anyone forward this to the cbc?????

Did anyone forward this to the cbc?????

"Blaming everyday Americans who have simply grown tired of paying for the privilege of being lied to is insulting."

That's what stinks about the CBC News. We are taxed to pay for their editorializing.

And while the world wakes up to Climategate, CBC plays Gore and Copenhagen. It makes you wonder if David Suzuki isn't at the helm...

"methods of operation that should be anathema to any decent scientist..."; despite years of abuse and decay from those schmoes, it is nevertheless a shock to realize that this type of dialogue wiill not be heard on the cbc; it takes a particular event to really clarify things and this is definitely it for me

He he, Dino the dead tree journo.

Wonder what Kindle will do to corporate journalism?

One of my favourite moments was watching a CNN roundtable of 4 of their propagandists where one chap with a bit of courage asked his cohorts why did we send 30 "journalists" to Alaska to tear apart the life of Sarah Palin to find everthing she did yet did not send one person to find out anything on Obama, not one. Pregnant pause, the other three looked away, mumbled a bit and then they moved on.

The power of the Internet and bloggers has been apparent this past week as climategate went viral on the web. At first, with a few exceptions, the MSM ignored the story. Then some acknowledged it but did so without reporting the substance of the leaked e-mails and documents. Then finally, as the story gathered steam on the 'net and generated widespread indignation, the MSM had to report its substance in an effort to retrieve their waning credibility. It was the bloggers and their readers who forced the MSM belatedly to do its job.

I wonder if the honchos at the MSM will have learned anything from this? Probably not. They still seem to labour under the illusion that they can control the public agenda based on what they decide to report.

"The Establishment does not know what to do about this."

Sure they do, they plan to ruin individuals with outrageous six figure civil lawsuits to punish little Jonny for downloading a song, and to make an example of people to scare the public. Pathetic!

reMSM, I've made a point lately of identifying who I see reading the news paper while I'm out. I can say that recently I've yet to see anyone under 40 looking at a news paper in public.

I think that article a few weeks back about the gas station that had to continually reinvent themselves is a great analogy for this industry. Instead of finding innovative ways to make money, the MSM instead demands their entitlements. If the paper media had a superior product to that of the armature blogers, they WOULD be able to preserve their customer base. The truth is, the MSM wants us to pay designer prices for S-Mart quality gear. Furthermore, if you shop around you can find designer quality gear at S-Mart prices.

“Shop Smart, shop S-Mart”-Ash

Once again we have the so-called elite class upset because someone from the outside has taken a piece of the pie that for so long has been theirs. How humiliating it must be to realize that their coveted journalism degrees are worthless. How humbling it must be to discover that you will be judged and remunerated based on your product and production. Finally, how infuriating it must be to realize that you’ve been B*tch Slapped by the “Invisible Hand”.

One significant thing is - newspapers have to primarily make advertisers happy, whereas blogs have to make readers interested.

To sell Obama commemorative plates, CNN can't diss Obama too harshly. The advertiser will walk, and nobody makes money.

Erik - do you mean that SDA is like PBS?

Black Mamba, in a way, yes - the vast majority of NA culture is not structured for thinking people - so thinking people look for an outlet that allows them to satisfy their inquiring minds. :-)

People will pay money for news. That, historically,
is why newspapers got going. It still keeps some
modestly profitable - not so much the global news, but
news of ships arriving in port, bankruptcy auctions, real estate sales.
Not so many people are going to
pay for opinion or wishful thinking.

There have been exceptions. It was at one time
a very good idea, if you were Russian, to read
Pravda, so that you would know what to think.
Both Russia and Pravda survived, and today's
Pravda compares well with the Blubb and Wail.

John Lewis, I just returned from Cali - I bought an LA Times when I was there, looking to flip my way through a great read during breakfast.

I was pretty surprised to find that the "A Section" was pretty much a Kresge flyer, intermittently interspersed with lightweight news articles. Pretty sad. How the mighty have fallen.

But don't ever take away my National Post!

Forgive an old lady the opportunity of patting herself on the back: I've been challenging the lame stream media for over 30 years and, occasionally, had my letters to the editor printed, though more often than not, not printed.

The blogosphere has helped me maintain my sanity. When the only way to contact the MSM was by phone (I called the CBC a lot) or a letter to the editor, it was discouraging to realize that more often than not one was excluded from the media loop, no matter how articulate or informed one was. In fact, the more informed and articulate one was, the more excluded one became.

Being able to share my opinions and to benefit from others who are more informed and articulate on issues important to me means a great deal.

Thanks guys at SDA! And, of course, thanks Kate!

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Kate. Still, you should get a footnote, at least.