[NU Sports] CFB Postseason...Survey Says... (fwd)

[Roy Lamberton]

Not to create more clutter....

Back when everyone bought a newspaper, there were many voices in the press. 

In New York City in the 60's there were a pretty balanced pack - the Trib was middle of the road, The Daily News (owned by the Pattersons) was fairly conservative republican in its outlook, Newsday was the Daily News of Long Island, and the NY Times was more likely read by "progressive Democrats" maybe even "Liberals" in its outlook, but there were the other papers to balance it off.  

There was a lively Jewish press that presented most sides of an issue, I think I remember several Afrocentric newspapers and at least one Chinese language one, all of which had opinion pages, and covered the news pretty much who, when, where, why, how.

There were 3 "networks" that provided both TV and Radio, two wire services, AP and UPI. Most news reporters came up through the ranks, starting as cub reporters doing obits, and police reports, and editors strove to present the basic news.

Nobody cared about the newspaper's politics because it was on their masthead. Rochester's Democrat and Chronicle was usually behind the Democrat Party but there were other newspapers to balance the leading paper and they did.

The Internet and World Wide Web pretty well killed off all but the biggest newspapers, and the presence of 6 or 7 local news channel is shaking the foundations of the rest. Add the information that a large percentage of the under 25's have a comedy show as their PRIMARY news source, and probably get all their local news in text messages (see Gossip), a newspaper that pounds one philosophy in its stories as well as its editorial page will lose interest from people with other philosophies.

We have two local papers here in Seaford. The one that is most widely read is the one that reports all of the local sports scores, the other only has one page of local sports, even though they both have the same number of sports reporters. People marvel at how we get the Little League World Series and American Legion covered in both papers - the answer is that I essentially write all the stories and send them in.

I hate to see all the different voices go, but when the only "news sources" become biased in their presentation, something else needs to take their place.

rsl

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-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Beamsley, Jeff
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 6:29 PM
To: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] CFB Postseason...Survey Says... (fwd)

Ah...so that's how perception becomes reality.  I wondered how that worked. 

----- Original Message -----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com <nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com>
To: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com <nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com>
Sent: Tue Jan 13 18:06:42 2009
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] CFB Postseason...Survey Says... (fwd)

I wasn't talking about politics but media bias.  I'm a long way from the 
first to say it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <MHRJGScott at aol.com>
To: <nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] CFB Postseason...Survey Says... (fwd)


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>
> for many newspapers' failures.  Too many are simply dishonest and 
> slanted.
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