Comments on: Who will tell the People? http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/blog/who-will-tell-the-people-2/ A Forum for Our State's Future Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:40:29 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Bill Lovett http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/blog/who-will-tell-the-people-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1039 Bill Lovett Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:55:41 +0000 http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/blog/?p=1087#comment-1039 Recently in conversations with a recent Ph.D. graduate and then two educated retirees, they all said that they don't subscribe to newspapers! The Ph.D. said he gets his information from internet and the retirees said they borrow newspapers or go on line. None of them had an answer when I asked them what the source of the internet information? Newspapers, in my opinion, are a necessity in a free society to gather,investigate and report/diseminate information to the public. Recently in conversations with a recent Ph.D. graduate and then two educated retirees, they all said that they don't subscribe to newspapers! The Ph.D. said he gets his information from internet and the retirees said they borrow newspapers or go on line. None of them had an answer when I asked them what the source of the internet information?

Newspapers, in my opinion, are a necessity in a free society to gather,investigate and report/diseminate information to the public.

]]> By: Susan Lackey http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/blog/who-will-tell-the-people-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1040 Susan Lackey Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:04:30 +0000 http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/blog/?p=1087#comment-1040 I'm a huge fan of the Chronicle, but this is a community newspaper, moved online - not citizen journalism or philantrophic journalism, both of which often come with a point of view. These new forms will require that readers apply a very skeptical filter to what they read online. The online 'news stories' about Pres. Elect Obama's religion, personal friendships and related posts should be an early warning for this new 'journalism.' They sure didn't pass a Society of Professional Journalists ethics test, but folks certainly believed them. Reader beware in the new world. I'm a huge fan of the Chronicle, but this is a community newspaper, moved online – not citizen journalism or philantrophic journalism, both of which often come with a point of view.

These new forms will require that readers apply a very skeptical filter to what they read online. The online 'news stories' about Pres. Elect Obama's religion, personal friendships and related posts should be an early warning for this new 'journalism.' They sure didn't pass a Society of Professional Journalists ethics test, but folks certainly believed them.

Reader beware in the new world.

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