I'm literally tripping over this stuff everywhere:
[Q] - Web Sites That Dig for News Rise As Watchdogs. “As America’s
newspapers shrink and shed staff, and broadcast news outlets sink in
the ratings, a new kind of Web-based news operation has arisen in
several cities, forcing the papers to follow the stories they
uncover.” I keep saying that hard news reporting is the Killer App
for old media, but they don’t seem to want to do it. -
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/business/media/18voice.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
They don't want to do it because they're lazy, lying, Marxist
bastards.
"SAN DIEGO — Over the last two years, some of this city’s darkest
secrets have been dragged into the light — city officials with
conflicts of interest and hidden pay raises, affordable housing that
was not affordable, misleading crime statistics.
Investigations ensued. The chiefs of two redevelopment agencies were
forced out. One of them faces criminal charges. Yet the main
revelations came not from any of San Diego’s television and radio
stations or its dominant newspaper, The San Diego Union-Tribune, but
from a handful of young journalists at a nonprofit Web site run out of
a converted military base far from downtown’s glass towers — a site
that did not exist four years ago." - (from link above)
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