tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15300956.post7519365038759433110..comments2008-07-16T10:26:08.032-05:00Samuel D. Bradleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14650475595508748959noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15300956.post-46782432808048251392008-07-16T10:26:00.000-05:002008-07-16T10:26:00.000-05:00Newspapers are no longer run by journalists, just as radio stations are no longer owned by broadcasters... business speculators are now in charge. Income is used to acquire yet one more newspaper or one more radio station... not to hire more or better reporters... not to make their end product more useful to the reader/listener. Audiences dwindle and revenues follow. I hate government regulations but if the government can support dairy prices to keep dairy farms profitable because "we must have milk", why can't someone think about ways to support the vital local news industry?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15300956.post-3936951001493299702008-07-14T21:47:00.000-05:002008-07-14T21:47:00.000-05:00I'm not saying that newspaper cutbacks are a good thing. However, bloggers can sometimes break major news stories, as when Josh Marshall cut to the core of the Bush Administration's U.S. Attorney firing scandal. Here are some links:<BR/><BR/>Columbia Journalism Review article on Marshall's role:<BR/><BR/>http://www.cjr.org/feature/the_josh_marshall_plan.php<BR/><BR/>Marshall's "Talking Points Memo" blog<BR/><BR/>http://www.talkingpointsmemo.comAlannoreply@blogger.com