Charles Hauser and the Abyss

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 .