Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Today's announcement of the Pulitzer prizes are a good reminder that despite the economic woes that are hitting newspapers and magazines hard these days, good journalism is still being practiced ( http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&aid=162197). Among others, journalists in Detroit were relentless in their pursuit of a corrupet mayor, and got him, and his deputy/lover sent to jail. In Las Vegas, reporting on the numerous deaths at construction sites around the Strip shed light on an industry that was operating in a unsafe manner. Since the reporting, deaths at construction sites have stopped. Journalism is still a noble profession, but I agree that there are far fewer practicing the art today than a few years ago. Our society depends upon a "well-informed electorate." Once people using the internet become willing to pay for their news -- and no, blogging isn't necessarily news -- the system will right itself. Hopefully. On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > At 03:06 PM 4/20/2009, you wrote: > >> Not terribly >> sure what "journalist" is now >> I once was one >> > > 90% of the journalists that I know have now lost their jobs. The remaining > ones are writing blogs. My favorite journalist in this area, Dan Huntley, > was let go last week and is now cooking barbecue for his living. He has a > cooker that he hauls behind a truck and cooks whole pigs on commission. > Might be a more reliable job these days than writing for the newspaper. > He > has been replaced by several "community correspondents" who work for free > and report who has won the local yard of the week, which pets need to be > adopted, and who attended the Junior Women's League auction, accompanied by > flash photos taken by the "correspondents" with their point and shoot > digital cameras. I'm using the Charlotte Observer to mulch my garden this > year. That's all it's worth. > > Tina > > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >