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Why the mainstream media is dying
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Because time after time, blogs are simply beating the shit out of the newspapers. They’re the ones who still dare to go for the throat, while their counterparts at big newspapers just keep reaching for the shrimp cocktail.
As for the newspapers: Faced with their own demise, fearful of losing even more advertising, newspapers have made the huge mistake of becoming ever more timid, more cautious, more in bed with the companies they cover.
It’s the exact opposite of what they should be doing. The truth is, if newspapers want to survive they should go back to doing what they started out doing — muckraking, stirring the shit, calling bullshit.
The other truth is, when these papers are dead, they will not be missed.
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Chemicals in Our Food, and Bodies
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Your body is probably home to a chemical called bisphenol A, or BPA. It’s a synthetic estrogen that United States factories now use in everything from plastics to epoxies — to the tune of six pounds per American per year. That’s a lot of estrogen.
More than 92 percent of Americans have BPA in their urine, and scientists have linked it — though not conclusively — to everything from breast cancer to obesity, from attention deficit disorder to genital abnormalities in boys and girls alike.
Now it turns out it’s in our food.
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Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry vs. The Catholics (Part 2/5)
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Blog’s have diminishing returns since they don’t do any actual reporting. There’s no news going on in your parent’s basement.
There is no secret to why newspapers are dying. They cannot compete with the FREE news offered on the web. Their circulation is dwindling because they can’t compete on price or convenience. The quality of print news and the presence of bloggers is irrelevant.
Each time I read a newspaper — several times a week actually — I am reminded of the fact that the national and international news I read therein is *OLD* by at least a day, usually by more than that. Moreover, I am reminded that what makes it into the paper has been so fully spin-doctored that it’s dizzy. Insightful news analysis is not available.
I am however fortunate enough to have decent local coverage, including significant investigative reporting now and then. And a comix page which is OK, although it’s using finer and finer print (sigh), and is infested with that rightwing propaganda duck (yuck).
Perfect (old) example, Farago didn’t write “best thing since sliced bread” reviews for GM products.
http://www.autoblog.com/2005/04/08/gm-pulls-ads-from-la-times/