Wanted: Real Journalism

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Vanishing Species

“I think a certain commitment to the public good vanished in the race for circulation. I think that is accentuated when you get newspapers taken over, as you have across America, by people who either borrow extensively to buy the paper, or never had any interest in what real journalism is about in the first place.

“The kind of investigative journalism, which I think is the absolute essence, is in danger and, in fact, in many places has vanished. We have to have this searchlight to know what the hell is going on. So when newspapers or TV neglect reporting, so you get chunks of opinion without any factual basis whatsoever, we’re all going to suffer for it.”

—Harold Evans, former editor of The Sunday Times of London,
in an interview on NPR Nov. 5, 2009. (Thanks to alert WORDster Thomas E. Winski)

Editor’s Note: Somebody ought to look into this.

And then there’s this . . . When everyone just aggregates and recycles everyone else (like the WORD?), does actual news stop happening? (Thanks to aleert WORDster Marc Davidson)


WORD CARTOONIST: Announcing the launch of Nate Pratt, the WORD’s new occasional editorial cartoonist. See his first offering here.

CALLING ALL UTAH STATE U. JCOM ALUMS: Where are you? We’re updating our alumni list. Please send your current position, title, contact info (including email), graduation year and any news to ted.pease@usu.edu.

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