05-07-2009, 01:07 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Narnia
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Originally Posted by mynameisjim
I know everyone loves to dance on the grave of the newspapers in this internet age, but if you enjoy democracy and freedom, don't celebrate their death just yet.
The news stories that we all like to debate the most, the ones that take actual resources, secret sources, months to investigate, can only be done by newspapers. CNN, MSNBC, and FOX simply offer a visual form of the AP wire. They don't spend 4 months researching a story before publishing a well thought out story.
The death of the newspapers in this country threaten democracy more than any terrorist ever could. The current internet model simply cannot replace it.
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