The opposite day, I watched as Karoline Leavitt, the brand new White Home press secretary, ran her first briefing to a packed room of reporters. She talked about that henceforth representatives from on-line websites, not simply newspapers and TV-news retailers, could be invited to the briefings. She received me to pondering.
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Supply of the information is altering. After I was rising up within the suburbs of St. Louis, my dad and mom learn two newspapers, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and the St. Louis Publish-Dispatch, one delivered within the morning and one at night time. (On chilly winter days, we children have been typically despatched outdoors to choose up the papers.) The Globe Democrat ceased publication in 1986. The Publish-Dispatch remains to be in enterprise.
After I graduated faculty and labored in Chicago, the city had three newspapers and I labored for one, the Chicago Every day Information (the paper ceased publication in 1978). My pal Judy labored at Chicago’s American (it went out of enterprise in 1975). (Our faculty was not prestigious sufficient for us to have utilized to the massive Chicago Tribune. At the moment solely the Tribune survives.)
Judy and I had each studied journalism at Iowa State College. We have been taught the “5 Ws” of journalism, the 5 issues each story should embody: Who, What, The place, When, and Why. Our tales had no bylines as a result of we have been simply reporting information. On the time, there was no “O” for opinion although there have been columnists with opinions. I ponder what the journalism faculties are instructing now?
At the moment, newspapers in each metropolis are fast-disappearing. Newspapers can’t report information quick sufficient when competing with the cable channels. And, it appears, lengthy in-depth articles on present topics are out of vogue besides in some magazines. So, I, too, write for an on-line publication, Dwelling-Las-Vegas.com. I subscribe to the Las Vegas Assessment Journal on-line (to save lots of working to the curb each morning in my nightie) and I subscribe principally to learn John Katsilometes’ leisure column daily. Though it’s value remembering that investigative journalism is alive and properly on the Assessment Journal and a variety of media retailers in Nevada and elsewhere. And I watch TV.
I keep in mind my father studying the newspaper and from time to time placing it down and cautioning us (the children) to not get into vehicles with strangers. Then he’d return to studying the information with commentary for the desk and even the perfect of the funnies (I nonetheless learn the Assessment Journal funnies) after which he’d go to the sports activities web page asserting who received what (as if we didn’t know). We have been all collectively then.
At the moment the children and even the adults are in several rooms huddled over their telephones or watching completely different TVs.
Trying again to the Nineteen Fifties, I miss these days.
