Your 15 Eagle Newspapers community weeklies are archived here, in PDF format. Search now!
Jan
17

Poll dancers.


Posted by dlovell | 01/17/08

Is it really any wonder that the public no longer has faith in established media?

I'm going to let you in on a little industry secret: Major media companies, especially metropolitan daily newspapers and television stations, are struggling. Newspapers can't keep readers and almost nobody turns to network television for their news anymore. Media types are quick to point a finger at the Internet, saying the immediacy of the web and the unregulated nature of blogs is stealing news junkies who used to get their fixes from the paper or TV.

Those fingers need to be pointed in the opposite direction.

It isn't the Internet's fault that online news is better...





spacer

Rambling on

Daniel Lovell, New Media Director for Eagle Newspapers, has won more than two dozen awards for his columns, editorials and investigative journalism. He is actively addicted to the Internet, soda and New York Yankees baseball.

Subscribe

Currently reading...

the day slowly tick away.


Archives