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Living Room / Re: Will you miss newspapers when they're gone?
« on: March 09, 2010, 04:47 PM »
Every city and town needs a newspaper to do at least one essential thing: let the public know what the local government is doing and how. each town has its businesses which may, or may not, be serving the public as they should. Who's going to tell citizens about it if not the local newspaper?
Newspapers are essential to a democracy. Which is why all tyrants suppress try to suppress them.
Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), a British politician, is supposed to have said "that there were three Estates in Parliament [the Lords Temporal, the Lords Spiritual and the Commons], but in the Reporters Gallery yonder, there sat a fourth Estate more important far than they all."
The internet and TV provide good news services. But none of them, and nothing else, can do what a local newspaper can do.
However, we do need a *new kind* of newspaper.... Anyone have any suggestions?
So says an old former editor of his town newspaper.
Newspapers are essential to a democracy. Which is why all tyrants suppress try to suppress them.
Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), a British politician, is supposed to have said "that there were three Estates in Parliament [the Lords Temporal, the Lords Spiritual and the Commons], but in the Reporters Gallery yonder, there sat a fourth Estate more important far than they all."
The internet and TV provide good news services. But none of them, and nothing else, can do what a local newspaper can do.
However, we do need a *new kind* of newspaper.... Anyone have any suggestions?
So says an old former editor of his town newspaper.