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Study: Journalists Starting To Accept The Fact That Their Print Publications Will Eventually Fold
Antonina Jedrzejczak
That’s according to a new report by the Oriella PR Network.
The report, Oriella’s Digital Journalism Study 2010, polled more than 770 journalists from Europe, the United States, and Latin America, and came to the conclusion that “journalists are gradually acclimatising to the pressures of juggling the demands of web and print media and, for the first time, view new media as an asset, not a hindrance, to news-gathering and presentation.”
A few more highlights from the poll:
* More than half of the journos polled think online media is far from being a profitable business model.
* 44% of the journalists polled agreed that the number of print media outlets will shrink
dramatically. To put it in perspective, that’s down from 60% in 2009.
* 39% of respondents expect a loss of more than 10% in advertising income at their publications this year.
The corporate media would still be in business, and the blog-o-sphere not even exist, if the media had remembered that their self-appointed task was to be a watchdog on the abuses of government.
Nobody likes a liar.
The corporate media wants to blame the blogs, but in truth the reason thy have lost their audience is that the corporate media lied to the world about Saddam's nukes.
The corporate media lied to the world about TWA 800.
The corporate media lied to the world about John F. Kennedy
The corporate media lied to the world about global warming
The corporate media lied to the world about 9-11
The corporate media lied to the world about the Oklahoma City Bombing
The corporate media lied to the world about Waco
The corporate media lied to the world about Robert Kennedy
The corporate media lied to the world about Vincent Foster
The corporate media lied to the world about Pearl Harbor
The corporate media lied to the world about Martin Luther King
The corporate media lied to the world about John F. Kennedy Jr.
As I said above, nobody likes a liar, and if the purveyors of propaganda truly wish to know the authors of their downfall they need only look in a mirror. The transition from mono-broadcast media to interactive media was sparked the moment the commercial media decided that their job was not to inform the public, but to herd them alonmg in the desired direction.
The blogs would not be here were it not for the corporate media's untrustworthiness. I have no sympathy for them, may they all rot in hell.