Originally posted by RobA_Oz This trend may succeed for news outlets desperate to stay alive in the online age, but will it allow truth to suffer further in the search for breadth rather than depth in reportage, and in order to balance the books?
So very true.
My degree (gotten in the 1980s) was in photojournalism. It is both depressing and appalling to watch the death of journalism, and it all dovetails so well with the larger decline in public institutions and politics -- even at the local level. I am frequently amazed at the dreadful abuses of power and financial malfeasance that goes on in municipal governments. I say "amazed" because it sure didn't used to be that way; there used to be reporters present in those city council meetings, but now there are no such reporters to send to those meetings. "Citizen journalism" is really pretty silly unless you are talking about something like the rare disaster coverage or police brutality (and even then you are only going to get someone's cellphone video). This republic is really going to suffer without journalists holding leadership accountable.