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What Happened to ‘Too Important to Fail
’?“I was definitely shocked to hear about the Globe. I fundamentally misunderstood what was going on. Boston.com has 5.6 million readers a month, and yet this hugely successful news gathering operation is going out of business. . . . Part of the erosion of newspapers is about new media, but part of it is newspapers’ own fault. I think the public has felt let down by The New York Times and others for not asking the tough questions, whether about the Iraq war or the subprime issue. The job of the fourth estate is to stand outside the vested interests and say, ‘Wait a minute, this isn't viable.’”
—Ben Affleck, Boston-bred actor whose new movie, State of Play with Russell Crowe, is about an aggressive news reporter. Click here.
Editorial Comment: Digging themselves a deep hole: Newspapers’ “Big Dig”?
Teawatch: Jon Stewart reports on Fox’s “coverage” of “grassroots” tax protests.
Page One Watch from the Poynter Institute.
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This is what Ben Affleck told the TODAY show this morning:
ReplyDelete“I think this will be the last movie that is set in a newspaper,” he said. “I don’t know how this movie will be perceived, but I do believe that people will look back and say that this movie came out right around the time that the Internet destroyed newspapers.” http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/30197824/
Lori