Thougths on the changing world of journalism

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David Lazarus in San Francisco Chronicle  reflects on the fate of newspaper business, and it comes to the conclusion that to all newspapers have to move to the paid model simultaneously, otherwise the industry will not survive. He gets a heap of replies, that soon citizen journalism will defeat the entire newspaper business, and the latter will disappear because of the uselessness.

In my opinion bloggery so forth is very successful mechanism, when deals with some trivial news like traffic jam on Kutuzovskiy. But if we look at the examples of quality journalism, then it turns out that

• for some reason not one blogger made journeys between Washington, Afghanistan and Poland in order to find out that CIA  holds suspected terrorists in the secret prisons in Poland

• none citizen journalist for some reason considered it important to search through the budgets of Vernon, California. To reveal that there is  total squandering of means in favor of the ruling family

• bloggery for some reason avoid journeys into the conflict zones like Algeria, Sierra Leone, etc., preferring the safe topics, like the critics of the statements of Bush in the congress, etc.

There are some interesting comments. May be later...