Our fave journalists displaced/replaced by poached New York articles
You say that books and newspapers will go digital/glow virtual
That there is a SECOND LIFE for retired editors.I disagree
Newspapers are historically a map of community.
Technology has changed-the broadsheet format adjusts-
just as books have since Caxton/Gutenberg
They are more than art,antiques,relics of a vanished lifestyle
They are a social map-more than coffeeshop conversations
They shame Rupert Murdoch-his stocks sink
Police exposed,politicians naked-this needs more than Wikileaks
This is the moving finger pointing of every one of us
It means more than lonely cursors on personal tiny iphone screens
More than news subscriptions for Huffington headlines
Pilger ,Assange,Kelso see a human side to community displacement
They are now on a world stage-syndicated via social media
yet their roots and stock in trade is in local coverage
Media can amplify-but it also needs to examine
Newspapers(like books)allow a time measured return to response
Circulation and advertising may drop,adapt,change,morph
Papers(like currencies )may crash and burn out
NEWS OF THE WORLD was actually quite profitable
but your community was outraged by their rape of personal data
Journalists are ethical secular seekers of truth-a deeper view than commentators
THE GUARDIAN may be bankrupt but its ethics keep it alive
I will now turn from PC to read what my daily newspaper sings to me
May we all thrive!
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