Save the newspaper?

 Posted by on 11 February 2010  Modern Life
Feb 112010
 

Oh dear. Isn’t there some sort of famous saying, where once they start making fun of your plight, you’ve lost all sympathy?

(via BB)

Grant Hamilton

  • Colin

    Newspapers abandoned their readers long before readers abandoned their newspapers.

  • Colin

    Jesse Brown, of course, has a vested interest in the denigration and stifling of newspapers — working for the Ceeb (a service I find vital and use daily, but…let’s face it, they’d never survive with the rules newspapers have to play by).

    That sort of critical thinking is what newspapers SHOULD (key word there) capitalize on and promote (along with context and more in-depth content. Not to mention setting the agenda and initiating stories, as opposed to passively reporting after the fact)

    If they can stop dumbing down and imitating TV and gossip tabloids, that is…