Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Last Look at Jones's "Losing the News" (Nov. 17)

In "Saving the News," the last chapter of Jones's Losing the News, he makes a number of educated guesses about the future of the newspaper and of the news itself. Do you agree with him on any of his conclusions, or do you think he is simply engaging in wistful thinking?
He speaks of the adjustments news practitioners have made from media to media. Is the internet just one more "media" to be mastered? Or are we headed toward the loss of the "verifiable facts" we need to support a democracy?