WHAT KILLED THE TRADITIONAL NEWSPAPER?
Hint, IT WAS NOT THE INTERNET!
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WHAT KILLED THE TRADITIONAL NEWSPAPER?
HINT...
...IT WAS NOT THE INTERNET!
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Well, let us look at the two current, main, prime suspects...
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Well, it was either...
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"Extinction Rebellion" in a single weekend of protest,
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Or
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The fact that all their sales plummeted through the floor due to a lack of integrity and the constant systemic sensationalist lying over decades. so no one trusted them anymore.
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It was one of those two things,
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But who could possibly say for certain which it was for sure??
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Well, I reckon that I can!
My working theory is that the internet did not kill the paper press.
I reckon that the paper press committed suicide, via wanton neglect instead!
Leaving a lying note behind, trying to pin the fake blame on the internet!
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It is hard to be sympathetic to an industry that wantingly kept shooting itself in the foot.
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The internet would never be able to compete with Newspaper Media 'IF' they had not ruined their own reputation.
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As soon as the first person said,
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"You can't believe all you read in the press"
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The idea that they could not be trusted took hold.
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The 'cancer' that killed this industry should have been dealt with there and then and kept on top of.
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Now it may be far too late!
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If you are a journalist that has lost your job.
Aks yourself
How much of that is YOUR fault?
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How long into your first day on the job did you last...?
...Before you made your first professional compromise?
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"Free ice cream" that taste of dog shit can never compete with "paid for ice cream" that taste nice.
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If journalistic integrity quality standards had not fallen so low then the internet with all its fake news would not have been a factor.
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But now both types of ice cream taste the same!
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So, of course, people are going to now choose the free option.
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Would you pay extra for a car that had no added quality value?!
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If one car cost $500 and the other is free but they are both just as unreliable as each other.
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Why would you ever choose to pay for the 500$ car?
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For that 500$, no matter how cheap that was, for a car,
You would rightly demand a much better level of reliability!
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It the same with news media.
A newspaper may only cost 1$, But why would you even pay that as little as 1$ if the free internet so-called "news" was just as reliable?!
For that 1$ you would rightly demand a much better level of reliability!
Hell!
For a newspaper that I could believe in.
And I mean, REALY, believe in?!
I would happily pay 20$ an issue!
But, sadly, no such newspaper exists anymore!
So,
THE MOST UNBELIEVABLE PART ABOUT SUPERMAN!
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Is not the supervillains or the superpowers!
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Or the storylines in general...
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The Most unbelievable part about the Superman universe now,
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Is that that a "Writer" called "Lois Lane" that tries to uncover corruption and who is a groundbreaking investigative journalist with unbreakable integrity and a passion for the truth,
Can ever exist again?
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THAT is NOW the hard part to swallow!
(Even "IF" she did exist she would have been "Legally" imprisoned for life halfway through ANY Superman story!)
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DEAR ALL JOURNALIST!
HERE IS A HEARTFELT HINT FOR YOU ALL!
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Re-writing an 'official press release' and making two phone calls for some extra quotes,
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IS NOT JOURNALISM!
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It is a grade school PR exercise!
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And I grade most of you with a "D-"
With a red pen, notation scrawled underneath, saying
"MUST TRY HARDER!"
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About the Creator
Ross E Fortune Lombardi
Writer. Gamer, Goth
A (Constantly Failing To Be Funny) satirist!
Mutare non est meum
Cantus moriar
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