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Quality of content has always stunk (none / 0) (#1)
by Anonymous User on Mon Jun 25, 2007 at 11:27:19 AM PDT

I've had little but contempt for the fact-checking and bias-avoiding abilities of just about every newspaper I've read in my life, and the above problems are only getting worse, at even the "best" papers. The same goes for magazines and especially the rah-rah trade press. Enthusiast journalism, ugh. Never saw a free review copy they didn't love, or a PR kit they wouldn't copy to produce an "article" [sic].

Blogs and websites are frequently no better, but at least they lack the mostly inaccurate legacy perception of objectivity and quality that gives MSM sources unwarranted influence still. The geeky oneupmanship and dogpiling culture of the internet also means that blog misrepresentations seldom go unchallenged for long.

If MSM are dying, let them die. They won't be missed. They don't do anything well now and haven't for some time.



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