Bleumangue

NY Times Exec. Editor Likens Newspapers to Vinyl Records

When Video gaming took precedence over reading a book, the end of print media was near. When the internet could provide pictures and captions instantaneously the end of print media was nearer. I don't need anybody to tell me, interpret for me, qualify for me what a picture of a typical "news-worthy" event means. I really don't give a FF what any candidate has to say because nothing ever changes and it's not going to help pay my mortgage anyway. So what does that leave? American Idol. YouTube. Veoh. Survivor: DeKalb. The Newspaper in print form is an anachronysm. The print media does not provide any means to change anything, it merely provides info on a bunch of stuff I have no control over anyway. Who cares about the 5th guy on the left in Palestine. I've got enough crap to deal with in a more or less sober fashion than to worry about how many morons buy houses next to rivers or volcanos. I can't remember reading an Editorial in any east coast paper within the last ten years that exuded printed word PASSION. All I get from print media on a daily basis is that I am about to be pillaged, burned, raped, murdered, assaulted, bombed, mutilated, poisoned, and be made homeless, unemployed, imprisoned, or condemned to damnation because I happen to be on this frakking planet. The ONLY newspaper that I have any positive feelings about is an Amish newspaper out of PA or OH. After the schoolhouse murders in the Amish community, they printed crop & planting forecasts and news that was of immediate relevance to the Amish community. Not a word about the obscene events that took little girl's lives. They dealt with the dealable. As for papers like the NYT or the BG or WP or St.PT or the MH - get more Ben Steins, or, encourage copious amounts of reporter alcohol consumption for more decisve writing.