Roy Peter Clark offers a challenge to journalists and citizens: Read the newspaper. The print edition. He characterizes this as a duty we must embrace as we face an ever-shifting media landscape. Here’s his essay: http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&aid=129470.
Of course journalists ought to be reading newspapers every day. As an editor at The Eagle, I have a duty every day to read our paper. But that said, I and everyone else in our newsroom have a duty to do what we can to make the paper and the content on our website so compelling that readers, including those of us in the newsroom, feel drawn to read it out every day.
Theresa
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I agree that a person has a duty to be informed although I differ from Clark’s approach. Print (space) provides a better understanding than radio/tv (time). An informed person may make better decisions on their health, finances and relationships with others.
I have not owned a tv for fifteen years and it’s often obvious which people don’t read their daily newspaper.
I get into this on my blog today: voxford.blogspot.com. I think if you work at a newspaper, it’s only polite that you buy it.
I get into this on my blog today: voxford.blogspot.com. I think if you work at a newspaper, it’s only polite that you buy it.
I get into this on my blog today: voxford.blogspot.com. I think if you work at a newspaper, it’s only polite that you buy it.
I get into this on my blog today: voxford.blogspot.com. I think if you work at a newspaper, it’s only polite that you buy it.
I get into this on my blog today: voxford.blogspot.com. I think if you work at a newspaper, it’s only polite that you buy it.