On Mar 15, 2009, at 2:45 PM, Lawrence Sica wrote: > > On Mar 15, 2009, at 5:32 PM, Chris Gehlker wrote: > >> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/13/AR2009031302273.html >>> >> > > I kind of see their point. Rush and his ilk have done nothing but > helped contribute to the severe level of ignorance in the general > populace.
Except that the part of the population that listens to Rush never did subscribe to newspapers. She bemoans that "A younger generation, meanwhile, has little understanding or appreciation of the relationship between a free press and a free society. Pew found that just 27 percent of Americans born since 1977 read a newspaper the previous day." without noticing that a much smaller percentage of this age cohort listens to talk radio or Fox News. As a journalist, Parker should know this. > Alot of the article is ignorance of tech Her 1st sentence is "The biggest challenge facing America's struggling newspaper industry may not be the high cost of newsprint or lost ad revenue, but ignorance stoked by drive-by punditry." Which implies that she thinks that somehow a business model where you spend 80% of your budget for purchasing, printing and moving around pieces of paper is sustainable in competition with the internet. The answer is that "the high cost of newsprint or lost ad revenue" from classified moving online are quite sufficient to eliminate your industry as a serious player and you are ignorant if you don't get this. > but I do wonder > how much they and the general attitude of the repubs towards the idea > of informed citizenry has damaged things. This kind of behavior has damaged the reputation of the press far more than Rush <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stu-kreisman/meet-the-real-press_b_174810.html > -- And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900) _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
