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What I'm Driving At Is Let's Not Lose Sight In Our Excitement Of The Democratization Of The Media That Some Things Are Bad, False And Ugly - And No Amount Of Electronic Gloss Will Make Them True, Beautiful And Accurate.

The Democratization Of News Is Fine And Splendid, But It's Not Reporting. It's Based On A Fragment Of Information Picked Up From Television Or The Web, And People Are Sounding Off About Something That's Not Necessarily True.

The 'gatekeepers' Became A Term Of Revile. But When You Think About The Flow Of Information, I Personally Value Immensely The Calibration A News Organ, Whether It's On The Web Or In Print, Brings To The Floodwaters Of Information. I Haven't The Time To Read All The Dispatches Of The Associated Press, For Example. It's Fantastic What They Put Out, It's Extremely Good, From All Over The World. I Like When Someone Acts As A Filter.

I Had Been At The Newspaper For A Few Months. It Wasn’t Regarded As The Paper, It Was Their Paper. There Was A Sense Of Community Because They Reported, We Reported, I Reported The Little Things, The Whist Drives, The Weddings, The Funerals, The Little Speeches. In One Sense It Was The Most Boring Copy In The World To Anyone Picking It Up, But, On The Other Hand, It Was Crucial To The People Who Lived In Those Communities.

When Came The Invasion Of Privacy.that Kind Of Thing Turns The Newspaper From A Friendly Organ - Not Necessarily Appeasing Everybody - Into The Enemy. It's One Reason Why Newspapers Have Suffered Circulation Falls.