I see a world in which the pursuit of truth in service of the public interest is declining as a cultural value in our society amid this technological tumult; a world where professional journalism, practiced according to widely accepted ethical values, is a rapidly diminishing feature in our expanding news and information systems, as we escape to the Web to experience the latest “new” thing.
I see a world where corporations such as Google and Yahoo continue to enrich themselves with little returning to journalistic enterprises, all this ultimately at the expense of legions of professional reporters across America, now out of work because their employers in “old” media could not afford to pay them.
— From The decline of news, an op-ed by Neil Henry in the May 29, 2007, San Francisco Chronicle. Henry, a journalism professor at the University of California at Berkeley and former Washington Post correspondent, is the author of American Carnival: Journalism Under Siege in an Age of New Media. (Link via Daily Briefing.)
Andrew Careaga 