In “The News About the Internet,” Michael Massing reports
“In an online chat with readers earlier this year, New York Times executive editor Bill Keller deplored the ‘diminishing supply of quality journalism’ at a time of ‘growing demand.’ By quality journalism, he said, he meant ‘the kind ‘that involves experienced reporters going places, bearing witness, digging into records, developing sources, checking and double-checking, back by editors who try to enforce high standards.’”
Later Massing states:
“The practice of journalism, far from being leeched by the Web, is being reinvented there, with a variety of fascinating experiments in the gathering, presentation, and delivery of news. And unless the editors and executives at our top papers begin to take note, they will hasten their own demise.”
WATCHDOG: Two wags of the tail! What applies nationwide also applies locally. Since the Lancaster Newspapers, for various reasons, will not conduct investigations, NewsLanc’s staff, with the help of its many volunteer contributors, must try to fill some of the void. The convention center series is demonstrating the way. It is possibly the most thorough investigation ever conducted by Lancaster media.
