Stop the Presses!

Dedicated to Judge Ronald

Remember when newspapers used to be the source of news?  That was way back, back before the Internet and instant notification; back before being tuned into talk radio, or cable television and the 24-hour news cycle and getting picture and words at the same time.  Newspapers just never adapted.  They did not modernize and get with it.  They did not, and get a load of this new word, re-invent themselves.  How do you re-invent a newspaper? 

Still, that does not excuse newspaper writers from being JOURNALISTS and giving their readers the TRUTH.  They may go to journalism school, but they don’t come out Journalists.  They don’t get The Scoop.  They all conform to and say the same words and thoughts.  On cable, one station tunes in to the other to find out what to say.  No originality.  No creativity.  Just multiple stations.  Journalists used to get the story; war correspondents risked their lives to get their stories published.  In the movie Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, William Holden dies.  That was a big movie – the song from the Four Aces won an award – so it wasn’t that easy to let a Big Movie Star die.  The fans of the movie star would get upset.  But that was the life of a war correspondent, that was the life of a journalist.  Getting the story.  Telling the story.  Back when journalists did their job, people read a story in the newspaper and people believed what they read.

Nowadays, people don’t read the newspaper.  There is more gossip than news.  More tabloid press than meaningful information.  No wonder circulation is way down.  People are tired of reading biased stories.  They know in advance which side of the story the newspaper is giving them.  The truth may not be in the story.  The important story may be cut short and found deep in the pages of the printed media.  Broadcast media just brushes past a headline to get to the commercial.

The costs of producing a newspaper have gone sky high.  Just the cost of paper alone has exploded. Printing presses, even computerized, are costly.  Delivery to specific drop-offs are expensive.  Broadcasting a news show is expensive.  You have to pay a big salary to some who photographs well and is able to read to cue cards (I know its a computerized screen or, in the case of our Dear Leader, a teleprompter). That I call giving away money to a dummy who looks good.

Cary Grant made a funny movie with Rosalind Russell – His Gal Friday.  The dialogue went at break-neck speed.  Both of them were talking at the same time, calling up on the old fashioned telephone you needed to hold with both hands.  But getting the story, being the first to get it into print; that was what mattered.  That was when the movies would have a screen at the newspaper printing plant where someone would yell out “Stop The Presses!”.  An entirely new edition had to be printed.  “Extra! Extra! Read all about it!”.

Now, the media is looking to project just what one candidate wants them to project.  That’s called being in the pocket.  There are stories out there that the citizenry wants to know more about, but the media won’t get the information to them.  The media has to check back with the candidate to find out what news they can release; what they can talk about.  The editorial page is on page 1.

The solution that the newspaper publishers are looking towards is that the government subsidize the newspaper.  That doesn’t quite sound right.  What happened to Freedom of the Press?  Why does Freedom need a subsidy?  If it’s really Freedom, subsidies are not necessary.  The broadcast media needs advertisers to stay in business.  If the advertising dried up, so would the broadcast.  How are the citizens to get to the TRUTH, get what’s NEW, find out what’s HAPPENING?

Subsidies are not the answer to the newspapers’ problems.  If they ceased to exists, the citizens would still know what is going on.  There are alternatives.

Harry Cohn

Columbia Pictures was headed up by Harry Cohn.  He said, “He who eats my bread, sings my song.”  If the media takes compensation, takes subsidies to stay in existence, then have to take the side of whoever is providing that subsidy.

No thanks.  I’m not taking the word of the media.  I’ll form my own opinion and get the facts from somewhere else.  How does Charles Dickens begin HARD TIMES – “Facts, Facts, Facts.  There are only facts.  Facts have been out there and if you search for them, you will find them.”

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