On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 12:26 PM, JW <[email protected]> wrote: > > You can probably > > compare the market value of a news story to the half-life of very > unstable > > isotopes. A NYTimes report can be substituted by a CNN report or a Fox > News > > report or a WaPo report or a Gawker summary or a HuffPo summary. > > The problem is that while everyone and his brother can pass along or > comment on a story, someone has to do the original reporting. As the > ability to profit from good journalism wanes, especially at the local > level, we're seeing once-respected organizations trying to "do more > with less". And as operations whose primary motivation is providing > accurate information are replaced by providers with a more overt > ideological agenda, we as a society lose. > > Having said that, given the choice between paying for a story online > or getting it free, I'll choose free every time.
The dilemma exactly. Is there some legal way to make HuffPo and the like pay some of their ad millions to the professionals whose journalistic credibility and elbow-grease is the real valuable commodity here? -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
