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A Zogby Interactive-We Media poll taken online recently tells us that some 67% of Americans consider “traditional journalism” out of touch, and nearly half of respondents are said to be “turning to the Internet to get their news,” Reuters has reported. The second point I take without question. The first is utter nonsense. The migration to the Web shouldn’t elicit surprise in anyone capable of perceiving the growth of and focus upon the Internet. The fact that the majority of Americans are interested in getting their news online than most anyplace else is entirely understandable. Media on the Web, for one, is substantially less expensive to the consumer than, say, print. Delivery is also instantaneous. That’s a big plus. What puzzles me about the study, however, is that it has essentially concluded that there is growing disillusionment with “traditional journalism.” That is, in a word, untrue. Completely untrue. Traditional journalism in all its fact-finding, thoroughly-analytical, unreservedly-critical forms is what an increasing number of individuals crave. More than ever. (more…)
    
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