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These Paragraphs Don’t Work Together
The Daily‘s editorial staff laments the end of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Although The Times cannot replace the P-I, readers should still support it as a news outlet because awareness about our surroundings is important, especially during this unstable time.
As readers, we must step up to the role of completing checks and balances in our society and not become lapdogs that don’t keep the media accountable. We need to remember that the world of print journalism is forever changing and evolving.
This is not so much grief at the prospect of the end of a newspaper as grief at the sudden constriction of post-graduation job opportunities for the authors of this weepy, subnormal prose. I plan on holding the Times accountable by not buying it until it produces content that enhances my “awareness about our surroundings.”
The “world of print journalism is forever changing and evolving” in that it’s going extinct. Fully nine percent of the citizenry of this country have “a great deal of confidence” in the media, down from 29 percent in 1978 – apparently, the only people that think this is sad are professional reporters, their immediate families, and the college journalism students that wanted their jobs.
