Charles Hauser, a retired executive editor of the Providence
Journal, points out today how the bottom line is a big factor in bringing
the newspaper industry to the abyss. He also mentions " frequency of
errors, the use of anonymous sources, sensationalism, liberal bias ".
Still I think newspapers will be around for a long while -until we
run out of trees.
I suggest that newspapers will not harm themselves financially by
adopting a more PEDANTIC tone for the public. We can forgive the political
bias of our teachers if they can actually teach us things we don't know
or explain things we need to understand.
Information is not enough. Countless facts can merely confuse us. We
need the TEACHER with the lucid mind. For millions of readers the daily
newspaper is the only " university " they will ever pay for.
And it is- or can be - still worth the price .
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