When No News Is Bad News
The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune are among those organizations that have spent many millions of dollars covering the Iraq War, with each outlet paying for multiple reporters, translators, full-time drivers, guards, bullet-proof armored cars, year-round office space, office managers, and security consultants with intelligence backgrounds to provide threat assessments. And all of them give that work away for free online. Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
i agree with the reviewer who talks about weeping. the loss is to our democracy, which needs more than 'freedom of speech' to flourish. it needs also, as the writer says, the depth, first , and the ordering and prioritizing of information which isn't coming through in on-line 'journalism'. "progress" really isn't always progress.