Gargling With Hatred (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} octabeck) wrote,@ 2009-03-02 08:07:00 |
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Yeah, so I'm bitter
FANCY NEW EDIT: I'm not angry at anyone in this community. You are all cool people. Consider this an open letter to every asshole who just shrugs and says that newspapers are useless or, worse, that the Rocky got what was coming to it for being so got-dang lib'rul.
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When I got home last night after a weekend in Denver, there were three wrapped, unread newspapers in my front yard. One was the final issue of the Rocky Mountain News, the other two were Denver Posts.
I would have thought nobody had been home all weekend, if it hadn't been for the flicker of the TV in the window.
You all just lost a major source of information about your state, your country, and your world. How many of you care that the Rocky folded? How many does it affect? Do any of you read a physical newspaper in the course of your day?
For just shy of 150 years, the Rocky staff worked hard to put out a daily record of everything happening in the world around you. But in the last ten years, that just didn't matter. It was boring. City hall? School boards? These things don't matter! The world's fucked anyway, why should you bother reading about it, right?
In the last nine years, they won four Pulitzer Prizes. For pictures and stories that probably none of you ever saw.
Financial analysts say that in coming years we will see several major cities without a daily newspaper. That is utterly pathetic. I just don't understand - who do people think will cover local events? Do you think the New York Times will send a reporter to cover city hall? Not to mention, TV news has little time to cover any issue in-depth - unless it's the death of a coked-up celebrity.
For everyone that scoffs and says that they'll just get their news online: WHO DO YOU THINK PRODUCES THAT CONTENT? What incentive does some asshole with a blog have to have his or her entries edited and fact-checked?
How many of you wouldn't know the Apocalypse happened unless you saw it in a Facebook status update?
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When I got home last night after a weekend in Denver, there were three wrapped, unread newspapers in my front yard. One was the final issue of the Rocky Mountain News, the other two were Denver Posts.
I would have thought nobody had been home all weekend, if it hadn't been for the flicker of the TV in the window.
You all just lost a major source of information about your state, your country, and your world. How many of you care that the Rocky folded? How many does it affect? Do any of you read a physical newspaper in the course of your day?
For just shy of 150 years, the Rocky staff worked hard to put out a daily record of everything happening in the world around you. But in the last ten years, that just didn't matter. It was boring. City hall? School boards? These things don't matter! The world's fucked anyway, why should you bother reading about it, right?
In the last nine years, they won four Pulitzer Prizes. For pictures and stories that probably none of you ever saw.
Financial analysts say that in coming years we will see several major cities without a daily newspaper. That is utterly pathetic. I just don't understand - who do people think will cover local events? Do you think the New York Times will send a reporter to cover city hall? Not to mention, TV news has little time to cover any issue in-depth - unless it's the death of a coked-up celebrity.
For everyone that scoffs and says that they'll just get their news online: WHO DO YOU THINK PRODUCES THAT CONTENT? What incentive does some asshole with a blog have to have his or her entries edited and fact-checked?
How many of you wouldn't know the Apocalypse happened unless you saw it in a Facebook status update?
