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In Reply to: No one cares what you think posted by awsmone on June 3, 2006 at 05:09:08:
At least that's the problem for the Guardian and most other newspapers.News Flash! Circulation is down! The internet is to blame.
The internet is the great equalizer in that it gives ANYONE who can find a way to get on-line "equal" voice. Well, everyone but Clark. ;-)
While us old folks may still subscribe to a few newspapers and weekly news/opinion magazines, I know quite a few younger, fairly bright and well informed people who NEVER look at a newspaper and get most of their news on-line or from Cable.
In past days, you had to have "qualifications" to be allowed to share an opinion on Radio, TV or the Newspaper. Letters to the editor were just a side show. Then came talk Radio, but even then in most cases the callers were used as “set up†for the host who controlled the show and its content.
To quote MAD Magazine "The people who write your letters should write the whole magazineâ€. Now with the internet, they can and do.
If I’m and editorial writer for the Guardian, I now compete with thousands of blogs plus an equal or greater number of chat rooms, message boards and/or asylums like this one, each with its own resident experts as well as its resident Clarks. ;-)
The internet is a world so distorted that the Editor of Stereophile has to compete for attention with guys named “Bass Nut Greenâ€!
So, to borrow and bend a phrase, “If you don’t like the news, go on-line and make up your ownâ€
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