I post this clip not only because I have an enormous man-crush on David Simon, but also because here he delivers one of the more comprehensive critiques of the current state of the American newspaper that I've seen in a long while. Or at least, outside a conversation I've had with my mom. Based on that fact alone, I would assume that Simon's represents the insider-view on a debate so often dominated by unproductive Chicken Littles on the one hand and overly optimistic web-2.0 assholes on the other.
I couldn't figure out how to post the video directly, but follow the link. The player provides the entire Democracy Now! episode, but should skip directly to the Simon bit. It's under 10 minutes long and well worth it.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
Fucking awesome, and not far off what we were talking about at Distillerie a few days back. I'm glad he made the point about blogging and "citizen-journalism" as well - blogging, for all its strengths, is nothing even close to actual journalism.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I like that the other speaker there was Arianna Huffington, the biggest "aggregator" of them all, making pretty decent money scavenging off of various newspapers.