BOSTON GLOBE MAY GO UNDER--Another News Source Disaster

 

My friend, Ira, thought I should write more on American newspapers losing out to the Internet age.
  More importantly, we are losing our credible news sources.
  The Boston Globe Newspaper is the latest print disaster.  Its on the ropes, due to lack of advertising revenue, just like so many others.
  So, the real question is: What can we do to stop the bleeding?
  You may say, "Why should we care about getting a newspaper at my from door in the morning, when I can just look up news on the Internet?
 Because, as we lose real journalists, who are trained in giving us the facts of the story, and are employed by the newspapers, we lose the truth.
 Sourcing in the news business is so very important....and it separates rumor from fact.
When the Washington Post, for example, breaks a story on the corruption of a major business or the government---people take it seriously, because of the training and discipline in uncovering such a story.
Just because you read a blog about a story, or lets say, the Drudge report.....that doesn't mean it is 100% factual.
Yet, when the Los Angeles Times, or Boston Globe, goes with a story, you know there is some truth to the journalistic effort to discover the truth.
The only way I see, that we can save some journalistic integrity, is to set up a federal board, like Public Broadcasting, that blindly supports some newspapers, and supplements advertising revenue, to those most credible newspapers.
As long as the federal board has no influence on editorial or news content, it is a possible solution.
Our government should not be involved in the news business.....but perhaps there is a compromise available to save these important sources of news.
Thanks for reading:
Bob Kholos