Comments on: We shouldn’t be grieving for the death of newspapers http://antonyloewenstein.com/2009/04/17/we-shouldn%e2%80%99t-be-grieving-for-the-death-of-newspapers/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:39:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Newspapers are Dying because they Missed the Story — will to truth http://antonyloewenstein.com/2009/04/17/we-shouldn%e2%80%99t-be-grieving-for-the-death-of-newspapers/comment-page-1/#comment-510234 Newspapers are Dying because they Missed the Story — will to truth Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:40:36 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/?p=10417#comment-510234 [...] piece by Antony Loewenstein down under saying that the mainstream media are going away not just because [...] [...] piece by Antony Loewenstein down under saying that the mainstream media are going away not just because [...]

]]> By: anon http://antonyloewenstein.com/2009/04/17/we-shouldn%e2%80%99t-be-grieving-for-the-death-of-newspapers/comment-page-1/#comment-510132 anon Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:05:59 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/?p=10417#comment-510132 I find Hagar good in the SMH when a copy becomes available in the coffee shop. I later look up Antony, Whatreallyhappened.com, the informationclearinghouse.com, 911blogger.com, the rawstory, Alex jones' prisonplanet and a few others. Sometimes the stories later turn up in the mass media; about 3 days on average, then again, others never turn up, as for example; David Chandler's three part presentation in rregard to the NIST report on builidng No 7 at the WTC indicting the 2.25 second freefall which demonstrates that that building must have been blown up, the 9 scientists who have just published a peer reviewed paper on the finding of nano-thermitic exploscive in the dust of the Twin Towers and that surely indicates that the controlled mass media is a fraud. Weapons of mass deception anyone? How aout some 'concoction of war on terror' and a bit of hate to encourage support to go kill Iraqis and Afghans to steal their oil and put in a few pipe lines. The controlled corporate mass media and their apologists are surely culpable for all the killings and they will have to face their demons, as the world is waking up. Spend your paper money on a good cup of coffee, you will be better informed by just sitting and thinkig for yourself. I find Hagar good in the SMH when a copy becomes available in the coffee shop. I later look up Antony, Whatreallyhappened.com, the informationclearinghouse.com, 911blogger.com, the rawstory, Alex jones' prisonplanet and a few others. Sometimes the stories later turn up in the mass media; about 3 days on average, then again, others never turn up, as for example; David Chandler's three part presentation in rregard to the NIST report on builidng No 7 at the WTC indicting the 2.25 second freefall which demonstrates that that building must have been blown up, the 9 scientists who have just published a peer reviewed paper on the finding of nano-thermitic exploscive in the dust of the Twin Towers and that surely indicates that the controlled mass media is a fraud.

Weapons of mass deception anyone? How aout some 'concoction of war on terror' and a bit of hate to encourage support to go kill Iraqis and Afghans to steal their oil and put in a few pipe lines.

The controlled corporate mass media and their apologists are surely culpable for all the killings and they will have to face their demons, as the world is waking up.

Spend your paper money on a good cup of coffee, you will be better informed by just sitting and thinkig for yourself.

]]> By: More media panic for the boys | Antony Loewenstein http://antonyloewenstein.com/2009/04/17/we-shouldn%e2%80%99t-be-grieving-for-the-death-of-newspapers/comment-page-1/#comment-510186 More media panic for the boys | Antony Loewenstein Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:44:25 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/?p=10417#comment-510186 [...] understands the point exactly in my latest column on why old media simply don’t understand the changing rules of the [...] [...] understands the point exactly in my latest column on why old media simply don’t understand the changing rules of the [...]

]]> By: delia http://antonyloewenstein.com/2009/04/17/we-shouldn%e2%80%99t-be-grieving-for-the-death-of-newspapers/comment-page-1/#comment-510121 delia Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:51:21 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/?p=10417#comment-510121 This is an excellent article, the grammar error in the opening sentence notwithstanding. What the MSM is good for is getting a quick take on the current propaganda. My day begins with a brief glance at the New York Times, the Washington Post, and three or four other major papers; then it's on to TPM, the Nation, War in Context, the Real News, a few other indies, and the blogs to find out what's really going on. But not everybody has the time for this--and that is the problem. This is an excellent article, the grammar error in the opening sentence notwithstanding. What the MSM is good for is getting a quick take on the current propaganda. My day begins with a brief glance at the New York Times, the Washington Post, and three or four other major papers; then it's on to TPM, the Nation, War in Context, the Real News, a few other indies, and the blogs to find out what's really going on. But not everybody has the time for this–and that is the problem.

]]> By: paul walter http://antonyloewenstein.com/2009/04/17/we-shouldn%e2%80%99t-be-grieving-for-the-death-of-newspapers/comment-page-1/#comment-510117 paul walter Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:45:40 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/?p=10417#comment-510117 Well, if the print versions of the AGE and SMH have deteriorated even a fraction as badly and rapidly as the online versions, I'd say there is a LOT of significance aesthetically, of the death of the commons type, let alone tragic sabotage/wastage of expertise and resources, with the "death of broadsheet". Its a sort of press/media version of Kristallenacht: so ugly and unsettling to watch the new brownshirts go about their business. The really sad example came on Media Watch this week, involving the once world-renowned "Age" reduced to overt brainwashing kids thru in-program placement passed off as "editorial", as to meat products. It left me with the same feeling I get walking thru a shopping centre, when I watch seedy great-coat types rummaging thru dumpsters for cartons, cans and the like. Well, if the print versions of the AGE and SMH have deteriorated even a fraction as badly and rapidly as the online versions, I'd say there is a LOT of significance aesthetically, of the death of the commons type, let alone tragic sabotage/wastage of expertise and resources, with the "death of broadsheet".

Its a sort of press/media version of Kristallenacht: so ugly and unsettling to watch the new brownshirts go about their business.

The really sad example came on Media Watch this week, involving the once world-renowned "Age" reduced to overt brainwashing kids thru in-program placement passed off as "editorial", as to meat products.

It left me with the same feeling I get walking thru a shopping centre, when I watch seedy great-coat types rummaging thru dumpsters for cartons, cans and the like.

]]> By: Benjamin Solah http://antonyloewenstein.com/2009/04/17/we-shouldn%e2%80%99t-be-grieving-for-the-death-of-newspapers/comment-page-1/#comment-510115 Benjamin Solah Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:26:39 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/?p=10417#comment-510115 Great article. I've never had much faith in corporate media at all. They're owned by some of the richest men in the world and they'll bloody make sure what's reported is in their interests, that of the rich, and make sure things against their interest, that threatens their rule, won't be published. Blogging plays some part in bypassing that filter of corporate media, but ultimately, I think, change comes from the consciousness people gain when what happens around them, what they see for themselves, contradicts what Rupert Murdoch and Co. try to tell them. Great article. I've never had much faith in corporate media at all. They're owned by some of the richest men in the world and they'll bloody make sure what's reported is in their interests, that of the rich, and make sure things against their interest, that threatens their rule, won't be published.

Blogging plays some part in bypassing that filter of corporate media, but ultimately, I think, change comes from the consciousness people gain when what happens around them, what they see for themselves, contradicts what Rupert Murdoch and Co. try to tell them.

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