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Jeff Martin

It's sad news for those of us who write for a living, 'ey TD?

Tom Goodman

Fine piece, TD. I look forward to walking to the end of the driveway every single day of the week to pick up the two newspapers to which we subscribe. I enjoy sitting at the dining room table and holding them in my hand. Nothing compares to that experience, not the internet, not television, not the radio. But the decline is inevitable and inexorable. USA Today signalled the last-ditch attempt by newspapers to turn themselves into a hybrid of all these media, and it is a rotten excuse for journalism. Now, the legitimate newspapers have come to the blog party, belatedly, but that won't save them either. As we all know and lament, people want their "news" fed to them in 30-second intervals without detail or analysis. The result is the "fair and balanced" propaganda from the Bush Administration's Fox organs.

"informative, reliable, balanced, interesting, and professionally produced sources of news that exist"????? Are you kidding me!!!? As long as it's THEIR idea of informative, reliable, BALANCED(?), interesting & professionally produced. Dad

Bill

I agree with both Tom's. Sad day indeed. There is nothing like reading the Sunday NYT or even the Inquirer and just plowing through.

I will take exception with one thing. Sometimes wire copy is a good thing. Why does the Inquirer need to send Bob Ford to the Tour de France or Wimbledon? Or Joe Logan/Juliano/Mike Kern to the British Open? Save some money. Or why does it need 20 people at the Super Bowl? Wasting money? Maybe tightening the belt and letting AP handle those types of events might save some jobs.

Tom Goodman

VERY good points, Bill. I think they continue to send them because they mistakenly believe only small time newspapers rely on wire services. But imagine the expense of having a reporter on the scene for most if not all of the Tour. Why the food bills alone would be staggering to say nothing of the threat to an individual's cholesterol.

Tom Durso

C'mon, Tom G., haven't you read the new book "French Reporters Don't Get Fat"?

Tom Goodman

No, but I read the sequel:

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/apr2005/nf20050419_5664_db089.htm?chan=gb

Tom Durso

Sacre bleu, Tom G.!

Dad: Tell me which medium does better than newspapers when it comes to fairness and accuracy. I'm not talking about editorial pages -- I mean the news side of the house. I won't argue with you that papers have their agendas, but by and large their news coverage is a hell of a lot better than TV's, radio's, and the Web's. And that includes papers with as conservative an opinion page as the Wall Street Journal and as liberal as the New York Times. Each is a great, great news outlet, on its worst day still better than anything TV does at its best.

Looks like another fun Thanksgiving dinner! :)

BUT you NEVER get fairness in the SLINKY or is it STINKY, I mean inky. I look at them from the grunt's point of view.....why fight for anything or anybody.......just let the inky & their liberal, blood sucking scum bag pals(mmmm, where'd I get that from?) handle everything. OF COURSE they & all the libs know what's best for me (us). They don't practice yellow journalism........not us, we're fair AND balanced!!! Just ask us......WE'LL TELL YOU!!!

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