NP Refugee

Newspapers and the Internet: Opportunities Lost

Sorry, but the edge NPs had is gone. Who, other that cave-dwellers and mushrooms truly considers any NP an unimpeachable source for news anymore? Every study I see shows that most people find them lacking in credibility and don't trust them. Ship's already sailed. What used to set them apart just makes them a "me too" these days.

The 2008 presidential election is a case in point.


On Jan 07 12:10 PM common sense 2 wrote:

> I know that everyone think that papers are dead because of the web.
> What they fail to take into account is that the news on the web could
> come from the back room at some 14 year old house, who thinks that
> he is god's gift as a tell all editor. In a lot of websites there
> are no checks and balances about the turth. Just because it's on
> print on the web does not mean it's true. Look how many "Urban Myth's"
> are sent out in emails and online at the whole truth. Since these
> webpages can be started for less than $100 everyone is a publisher
> if they wish to be.
> I am sure thaere are a lot of hate groups spewing there from of truth
> and half truths to an audiance that will believe anything.
>
> You can find all the rumours you wish on the web, but can you really
> trust the information????? I am sure that there is a lot of dis-imformation
> being presented also.
>
> In the rush to be first to publish information, the internet publishes
> more trash, read by more readers than any newspaper ever has.

>
>
> Just what are we letting the youth see on the internet... how to
> make a bomb, hate groups to brain wash them? Remember that for the
> most part it's a wide open frontier, and because of that quite lawless
> on what is given as fact.
>
> I wonder if during the 1800's that they considered the cities as
> bygone era because of the wide open land available, instead of the
> trash and waste running down the city streets.
>
> Not everyone trust the internet for good reasons, but through 100
> years of publishing most people feel they can trust papers, even
> if they don't always agree with them. They know who to complain to
> and hold accountable for there stories.
>
> That internet site could be just a group of college students from
> around the globe, each haing there own section to worry about. If
> you complained would they even read it? or would it just go in the
> wastecan of email or an automatic trash disposal.
>
> I would perfer my information to come from a reliable site, not just
> a teen editor.
>
> And one other point. If you have all the answers, why not start your
> own internet /or paper product rather than complaining about the
> ones that try. I don't mean just wrinting a column, slanted toward
> what will sell at this time. I am sure if you wrote the praise of
> newspapers no internet site would pay you for it.
>
> my 2 cents worth.