Easy: Great stories and great writing. Bloggers often (and justifiably) criticize traditional print journalism as stultifying and ho-hum. But here’s a front page news story from the Seattle Times that adheres to all the journalistic standards, including the fact-filled lead and inverted pyramid construction, while being just as clever (and more absorbing) than most blog [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Journalism’
March 17, 2009
The long, slow death of the American newspaper
Journalism began dying about 50 years ago, but the public seems to have noticed it just recently, when the walking dead that American dailies had become finally started dropping into their graves. You could say that the rise of the Internet, creating an alternate pathway for transmitting information, was the final nail in the coffin. [...]
