Comments on: Has the Internet Killed Print Journalism?

By: neotoy

neotoy — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:09:53 +0000

Print media is a huge waste of resources, but it’s going to take time for technology to totally replace it.

By: sugarpuddin88

sugarpuddin88 — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:18:44 +0000

Glad to see that we have more than 3 major news sources to go to today!

No complaints from me!!!

Let the best news prevail! (Rather than big corp’s that buy out FCC heads of office)

By: AspasiaByName

AspasiaByName — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:26:49 +0000

Perhaps people are tired of the corporate, profit-driven junk that passes for journalism in mainstream media. Didn’t every major newspaper in the US beat the drums of war and support the invasion of Iraq? Nice going, jackasses. I’d rather listen to a 14 year-old on the internet express the truth of his/her ideas.

By: EmelinaChaCha

EmelinaChaCha — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:32:35 +0000

I agree with the comments below, but there seems to be some individuals (paid or just activists) who flood places with information and disinformation. The individual is left to waddle through tons of text and has to then investigate for themselves to find out if the information is false. I wish there was a place you could go to and be able to believe what they say.

By: cujothekitten

cujothekitten — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:38:56 +0000

The internet sure is changing the print design field. There are fewer and fewer jobs out there for print designers and I’m sure there are fewer and fewer print journalism jobs as well.

By: ihouvanje

ihouvanje — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:00:21 +0000

When 5 corporations control the MSM. People realize all the stories are the same and repeated over & over again.
Journalists have turned into repeaters.
The talking heads on television are under educated, rude, constantly interrupt guests and insult.The MSM believes they are celebrities.People are tired of the prepackaged propaganda.Living in Europe has shown me just how censored the industry in all of America actually is. People want the truth, not biased opinions that hide facts and distract

By: Hooya2

Hooya2 — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:04:51 +0000

That second guy tried to sound smart, but all I heard was bullshit. He said that newspapers had value, but he didn’t mention what it was; he said amateurs couldn’t report the same truth as professionals, but didn’t explain why; he said that freeing information would destroy democracy, but didn’t say why.

In other words, he talked a whole lot but didn’t say anything.

By: justplainjill

justplainjill — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:04:53 +0000

print media in dire straits.. oh poor things..

sorry, we’re saving trees!! which saves the wildlife who reside in those trees.. and so on and so on..

By: justplainjill

justplainjill — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:37:54 +0000

Emelina, this has happened since the beginning of time and will never end.. sorry to say: printing out papers, scaling down subject matters and leaving opinions based on how much text room and/or photo room you have (additionally, leaving that freedom up to corporate conglams) will NOT change anything but yet once again keep people more silent.

By: deth12345a

deth12345a — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:34:40 +0000

The argument of Keen goes beyond the corporate media. He`s talking about the survival of the professionalism that goes along with journalism. If the Internet takes over the whole information, true or false, who is going to pay the journalists to verify the facts? That`s a huge issue, and I`m not even talking about piracy, respect of authorship, anonymity, etc.