http://www.scoopdaily.com/2009/07/04/too-big-to-fail/ Fresh Lens on the 44th President Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:36:17 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.scoopdaily.com/2009/07/04/too-big-to-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-994 John Tedesco» Blog Archive » Today’s blog roundup Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:13:12 +0000 http://scoop44.com/testbed/?p=5727#comment-994 [...] Scoop 44: The Newspaper Revitalization Act would allow newspapers to accept donations to continue investigative reporting. [...] [...] Scoop 44: The Newspaper Revitalization Act would allow newspapers to accept donations to continue investigative reporting. [...]

]]> http://www.scoopdaily.com/2009/07/04/too-big-to-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-993 Bill777 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:21:04 +0000 http://scoop44.com/testbed/?p=5727#comment-993 It seems to me that news papers, and journalism in general, should be moving more and more in the direction of being publicly funded. There is a lot of talk about protecting the current journalism business by making copy right stronger or loosening anti-monopoly laws to allow the big guns in journalism to work together to stay afloat. This seems to miss the point. We don't need to save the papers and companies which currently exist, we need to completely reshape the entire field which will require new and vibrant bodies of journalists working in new ways. There are some great interviews with top journalists about the future of journalism at <a href="http://www.ourblook.com/component/option%2Ccom_sectionex/Itemid%2C200076/id%2C8/view%2Ccategory/#catid69" rel="nofollow">http://www.ourblook.com/component/option,com_se...</a> which I have found useful on these subjects. It seems to me that news papers, and journalism in general, should be moving more and more in the direction of being publicly funded. There is a lot of talk about protecting the current journalism business by making copy right stronger or loosening anti-monopoly laws to allow the big guns in journalism to work together to stay afloat. This seems to miss the point. We don't need to save the papers and companies which currently exist, we need to completely reshape the entire field which will require new and vibrant bodies of journalists working in new ways. There are some great interviews with top journalists about the future of journalism at http://www.ourblook.com/component/option,com_se... which I have found useful on these subjects.

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