common sense 2

Newspapers and the Internet: Opportunities Lost

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.