Light Our Fires
September 10, 2010 - by
Arthur Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times, said this week that the Times eventually will stop printing the paper and go totally on-line. Some say that could come as early as 2015.
Just shoot me now.
Not just because I’ll be one of the final holdouts who will still have a morning paper in my cold dead hands.
It’s also a sign of where the news media is headed in America
Don’t get me wrong. I love the online world – email, texting, Google, Wikipedia, information at my fingertips and, of course, my blog.
But there must be a direct correlation between the decline in newspaper-reading and the rise in the shouting-past-each-other slugfest that cable news has become.
That’s how a seemingly peaceful imam in New York and a clearly nutty preacher in Florida
For myself, I have a strategy. I’m partial to WRAL’s news. Sometimes, then, to NBC Nightly News. Then Jon Stewart. Then, click! No Fox, MSNBC or CNN. I don’t even like the screaming heads I agree with.
If ESPN is showing anything that involves throwing, kicking or hitting a ball, I’m on it. There is some real human drama!
If not, there’s always a book. Until I have to get a Kindle, I guess.
Light Our Fires
September 10, 2010/
Arthur Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times, said this week that the Times eventually will stop printing the paper and go totally on-line. Some say that could come as early as 2015.
Just shoot me now.
Not just because I’ll be one of the final holdouts who will still have a morning paper in my cold dead hands.
It’s also a sign of where the news media is headed in America
Don’t get me wrong. I love the online world – email, texting, Google, Wikipedia, information at my fingertips and, of course, my blog.
But there must be a direct correlation between the decline in newspaper-reading and the rise in the shouting-past-each-other slugfest that cable news has become.
That’s how a seemingly peaceful imam in New York and a clearly nutty preacher in Florida
For myself, I have a strategy. I’m partial to WRAL’s news. Sometimes, then, to NBC Nightly News. Then Jon Stewart. Then, click! No Fox, MSNBC or CNN. I don’t even like the screaming heads I agree with.
If ESPN is showing anything that involves throwing, kicking or hitting a ball, I’m on it. There is some real human drama!
If not, there’s always a book. Until I have to get a Kindle, I guess.