We as a nation, need press that holds up shining examples of the things our society should aspire to…..stories of local heroes, stories about honest politicians, in other words feel good & good new stories to balance out the bad.
We need to believe that a national newspaper is speaking the truth, but for too long this past integrity (call it currency) has been completely spent with no regards for the consequences.
It’s like the boy who cried wolf…and lied and lied so often to get attention…then in the end he was not believed.
The press is so busy reporting the ill-advised moves of famous people at whatever the cost that it never thinks about the cost of losing its own credibility.
If people would like to have a press that has integrity….we have to speak out against it’s lack of integrity. The focus should on both national and international news, then sports and gossip columns bringing up the rear.
Those papers should stop pandering to the lowest common denominator (sex) for the short term spike to the circulation figures and realise the damage and lack of quality can do to the continued decline in Newspaper sales.
Give me something interesting, not frivolous….something meaningful to add value and make me want to buy newspapers on a daily basis.
The press is so busy in a smarmy way holding everyone else to account…no one is holding the press up for scrutiny.
2007-04-19 @ 00:45