"This (past) Wednesday, newspaper representatives met with the US Congress about the ailing state of the print business. Some like David Simon, noted author and the creator of HBO's The Wire, complained that online news and news aggregators (like Google News) are killing the business. He states, "High-end journalism is dying and it won't be reborn anywhere else without a new model. The parasite is slowly killing the host. High-end journalism is a profession." He dismisses bloggers, stating, "A neighbor with a garden hose is not a firefighter." But Ariana Huffinton, co-founder of the left-wing news weblog Huffington Post said "The future of journalism is not dependent on the future of newspapers." Read the whole thing.
About Me
- VOKL - Voice Of Ken Lawton
- VOKL is my self-assigned nom-de-blog in the format of a Newfoundland radio call sign. It gives me a name for my voice. And when you say it out loud it's vocal. See? VOKL. This may also reveal a subconcious desire to punnish my readers. I hope you understand. Anyway it's my blog. Start your own blog.
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Looking at this graph how can we believe temperature is driven by CO2? We can't.
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"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." ~ Henry Louis Mencken
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. ~ Robert A. Heinlein
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