Farewell Remarks by Los Angeles Editor - New York Times
Farewell Remarks by Los Angeles Editor - New York Times: "When this industry stops relying so much on cuts and starts investing in Journalism, it will prosper because it will be serving the best interests of our readers. That’s when we will prosper."
Amen and great point. What a self-fulfilling prophecy the journalism business has been leading eh? Its a vicious circle of: lets do less and less real reporting and factual digging instead focusing simply on the surface and, what do you know? People do not get involved in this type of news nor do they make the investment of time and money.
Instead should one really spend the time investigating the anthrax attacks in our country, for instance, and do some real in depth reporting about this maybe you start to see people get interested and invest in this story in a lot of ways. On the flip side perhaps journalism could start to also, instead of focusing on gossip and spears', focus on true heroes amongst us and offer us personal reporting about all that is going on with them (not simply to tear them down later mind you) perhaps we start to see a new paradigm of reporting and journalism?
Amen and great point. What a self-fulfilling prophecy the journalism business has been leading eh? Its a vicious circle of: lets do less and less real reporting and factual digging instead focusing simply on the surface and, what do you know? People do not get involved in this type of news nor do they make the investment of time and money.
Instead should one really spend the time investigating the anthrax attacks in our country, for instance, and do some real in depth reporting about this maybe you start to see people get interested and invest in this story in a lot of ways. On the flip side perhaps journalism could start to also, instead of focusing on gossip and spears', focus on true heroes amongst us and offer us personal reporting about all that is going on with them (not simply to tear them down later mind you) perhaps we start to see a new paradigm of reporting and journalism?
