[Marxism] letter to the New York TImes public editor

[Jim Farmelant]

On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 07:41:01 -0800 MICHAEL YATES <mikedjyates at msn.com>
writes:
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> The person who informed me of your Braddock piece remarked that 
> newspapers are becoming more
> like blogs.  Original research is a thing of the past.  Copying is 
> in.

Which raises issues concerning what directions we expect
to see the newspaper business to take in the near
future.  It seems apparent that the traditional business
models that newspapers have followed no longer seem
viable in the Internet age.  Most leading newspapers
have cut their staffs to the bone and then some.
Most of those papers that had foreign bureaus have
closed them.  I suspect that to the extent that newspapers
have a future, they will be more like news aggregators,
who will be purchasing their reporting from freelancers
or perhaps from consortitiums of independent journalists,
rather than maintaining large staffs of reporters and
writers.  Of course that way, newspapers would have
less to do with unions.

Jim F.

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> Sincerely yours,
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> Michael Yates, Associate Editor of Monthly Review and Editorial 
> Director of Montlhy Review Press.
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