New Yorker writer bashes blogs
The effects of climate change are upon us, a New Yorker magazine staffer told a crowd in Branford College Wednesday, and good journalism — which she saidis dangerously in decline — is necessary to inform the public.
New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert, who authored an award-winning book on global warming in 2006, addressed the decline of print media and the spectre of climate change at a Branford College Master’s Tea. Print media has been “hemorrhaging” readers and has seen a rapid decline in advertising revenues that, Kolbert said, is related to the advent of blogs and other...
Having not attended, I cannot be sure if Kolbert's critique of blogs was as overly broad as this article describes. Yes, democracy thrives when fact-based reporting exists. That, however, happens sometimes on blogs and does not happen sometimes on blogs. AND, that also happens sometimes in print and not sometimes in print.
The better focus is on the question and challenge of how to increase the number and quality of when it happens. Not to argue over 'forms'.