Comments on: Goodbye Newspapers, You Arrogant Monopolistic Dinosaurs http://www.ereleases.com/prfuel/good-bye-newspapers/ PR News, Views, & Stews Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:18:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Madeleine http://www.ereleases.com/prfuel/good-bye-newspapers/comment-page-1/#comment-262 Madeleine Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:27:29 +0000 http://www.ereleases.com/prfuel/?p=670#comment-262 Sara, well said. The LA Times just recently ran a series of stories how through their investigation of the CA State Board of Registered Nursing they discovered it was 3 years behind investigating incompetent nurses who often times were stealing drugs and endangering thousands of patients. The governor has since replaced most of the board, thanks to the LA Times reporting. http://tinyurl.com/md6vna Yes, we have our local TV stations, but they cannot report on stories as in depth as can a newspaper. The internet is just too vast. Getting one story in front of everyone as newspapers can do, and report it at length with back-up facts, is just not possible. Don't get me wrong, I love the internet. I design website, blogs, etc, but I sure would not want to reply on it solely for all my information. Anyone can post anything they want on the internet without checking out one single fact. Newspapers, for many reasons the most important being integrity (well, most papers) have to double check their facts, the photos must be photoshop free, if not, there is h#@ll to pay. If we are looking at this strictly as an advertising model, then I see Mickie's point, and knowing the sad shape of the newspapers with dwindling circulation and loss of advertising, he is right that those that use ereleases do much better TARGETING their advertising. But losing our newspapers, especially on the local investigative level, will be tragic. Sara, well said. The LA Times just recently ran a series of stories how through their investigation of the CA State Board of Registered Nursing they discovered it was 3 years behind investigating incompetent nurses who often times were stealing drugs and endangering thousands of patients. The governor has since replaced most of the board, thanks to the LA Times reporting. http://tinyurl.com/md6vna

Yes, we have our local TV stations, but they cannot report on stories as in depth as can a newspaper. The internet is just too vast. Getting one story in front of everyone as newspapers can do, and report it at length with back-up facts, is just not possible. Don’t get me wrong, I love the internet. I design website, blogs, etc, but I sure would not want to reply on it solely for all my information. Anyone can post anything they want on the internet without checking out one single fact. Newspapers, for many reasons the most important being integrity (well, most papers) have to double check their facts, the photos must be photoshop free, if not, there is h#@ll to pay.

If we are looking at this strictly as an advertising model, then I see Mickie’s point, and knowing the sad shape of the newspapers with dwindling circulation and loss of advertising, he is right that those that use ereleases do much better TARGETING their advertising. But losing our newspapers, especially on the local investigative level, will be tragic.

]]> By: Sara http://www.ereleases.com/prfuel/good-bye-newspapers/comment-page-1/#comment-140 Sara Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:48:39 +0000 http://www.ereleases.com/prfuel/?p=670#comment-140 For your $1,000, you helped subsidize a core of journalists who went to school board meetings when you couldn't, who scrutinized city budgets for waste, who pointed out when potholes went unfixed. You helped pay the journalists who checked the police reports for burglaries in your neighborhood, who let you know which special interests were underwriting which candidates, who raised the alarm when society's most vulnerable lost their lives in the care of institutions meant to protect them. You got a heads up on important local developments that affected your family, your home, your neighborhood. You got news that would not have been broken by local bloggers, the alternative press, or on Craigslist. Why? Because reporting is hard, time-intensive work, and volunteers quickly lose enthusiasm for doing it unpaid. Newspapers have made mistakes. But if they go under, the reporters they employ no longer report on your town. And that's a great loss to us all. And um, I can't help wondering: Just who do you think is going to pick up your press releases? For your $1,000, you helped subsidize a core of journalists who went to school board meetings when you couldn’t, who scrutinized city budgets for waste, who pointed out when potholes went unfixed. You helped pay the journalists who checked the police reports for burglaries in your neighborhood, who let you know which special interests were underwriting which candidates, who raised the alarm when society’s most vulnerable lost their lives in the care of institutions meant to protect them.

You got a heads up on important local developments that affected your family, your home, your neighborhood. You got news that would not have been broken by local bloggers, the alternative press, or on Craigslist. Why? Because reporting is hard, time-intensive work, and volunteers quickly lose enthusiasm for doing it unpaid.

Newspapers have made mistakes. But if they go under, the reporters they employ no longer report on your town. And that’s a great loss to us all.

And um, I can’t help wondering: Just who do you think is going to pick up your press releases?

]]> By: Ardith http://www.ereleases.com/prfuel/good-bye-newspapers/comment-page-1/#comment-139 Ardith Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:20:23 +0000 http://www.ereleases.com/prfuel/?p=670#comment-139 Mickie, you made my month. Your title and commentary are so spot on. Thank you, Ardith/Marketing Communications Think Tank Mickie, you made my month. Your title and commentary are so spot on. Thank you, Ardith/Marketing Communications Think Tank

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