Comments on: Ugly Week for Print Media http://hightalk.net/2009/10/30/ugly-week-for-print-media/ Conversations with George F. Snell III on Media, PR & the Social Web Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:28:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: gfsnell3 http://hightalk.net/2009/10/30/ugly-week-for-print-media/#comment-815 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:19:35 +0000 http://hightalk.net/?p=1479#comment-815 Hi Elfie:
The WSJ certainly sent a message to Massachusetts about how much it values our businesses here…

Hi Mitch:
That’s an excellent blog post that brings up some interesting points about our national slide into ignorance. But it’s worse that just being ill-informed as we stop watching TV and cable news and abandon newspapers.

These objective news outlets (we can argue about whether objectivity is really possible – but at least most professional news gathering operations strive for it) are being replaced by propaganda outlets – like FOX-News and MSNBC.

These outlets don’t even pretending to be objective and don’t provide fair and balanced reporting. So not only are more people uninformed, but growing numbers are ill-informed. That’s a bad recipe.

]]> By: Mitch Chester http://hightalk.net/2009/10/30/ugly-week-for-print-media/#comment-814 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:22:24 +0000 http://hightalk.net/?p=1479#comment-814 Your title “Great Media Collapse of 2009″ is very telling. It evidences information suffocation, which I wrote about at http://sharedemergency.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/fighting-information-suffocation/

]]> By: Mike Elfland http://hightalk.net/2009/10/30/ugly-week-for-print-media/#comment-813 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:35:28 +0000 http://hightalk.net/?p=1479#comment-813 Good summary, George. I, too, cringed at the WSJ decision, having been someone who figured WSJ was weathering the storm better than most. That may be true, but, as you point out, this is a bigger comment on the state of the Boston market.

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