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***mandy*** · 12-11-2006, 10:30 AM,

Quote:"All the news that's fit to print" was once the newspaper man's slogan. Now, with news-junkies turning increasingly to the net for their daily fix of world events, papers are beginning to feel the pinch...

These are scary times for newspapers and a crucial time for society.

A fully functioning media needs more than fast reacting rolling news, it also needs newspapers which spend more time chewing over what the news actually means.

There is a problem with free: it often comes unpackaged and without the know-how to understand it.

full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/cl...220424.stm

maryrussel · 12-11-2006, 07:40 PM,

"But if you show people that the content on the website is only made richer in the newspaper the next morning because what you have on the website in terms of news is becoming an analysis, is becoming a report from abroad, is becoming some kind of a huge interview on the newspaper, then there is a sense to it."

Interesting comment. As a student of Journalism I was taught that a good journalist doesn't make news but only reports the news without bias. I think that when you start expecting journalists to analyze what they report, you increase the risk of bias. It also assumes that readers or listeners are not intelligent enough to analyze what they read or hear for themselves.