the lack of original reporting is concerning — many ‘news’ sites are just ‘monkey see, monkey do’ — cut and paste from somewhere else rather than going out and finding stories…

Since my day job is in print media I live this every day.

Its not about being politically entrenched, but economically entrenched. Newspapers across the country have only one profit model, cut costs to keep pace with rising prices and shrinking revenue. Bottom line thinking has gutted a once proud industry.

The internet has had an impact. It was and is a convenient playing chip in bargaining down the price of print advertising. Never mind that we aren’t comparing apple to apples, just the threat of advertisers running to another media has forced the hand of newspapers.

You can’t do the work if you don’t have the people. You can’t have the people if you don’t have money to pay them. And thats the way it is.

You mean you still watch cable news?

:smiles:

Don’t be fooled into thinking that our mainstream media hasn’t been total crap for a looong time. Now they’re all blatantly owned by corporations, but used to be it was more sneaky than that. The bottom line is that a lot of people have been lulled into a false sense of trust and they are going to have to relearn how to really analyze information. It takes brain-power and time and energy, but it’s good for you. And it’s the only way to avoid the many horrible things that can happen when people let others tell them what to think/believe.

…but even then…