On AlterNet: newspapers

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What the GOP and Corporate Media Are Hiding: The Public Debt Is Putting More Cash in Your Pocket

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. May 26, 2011.

The media is hoodwinking us into buying the Right's deficit hysteria -- they're not telling us the real story.

The Appalling Cowardice of the NY Times and the Rest of America's Big Newspapers -- Too Scared to Say 'Torture'

Will Bunch, Media Matters for America. July 1, 2010.

Before 2004, the newspapers called waterboarding torture. After the revelations of Gitmo and black sites of the Bush years, they've gone silent.

Being 'Objective' Is Killing Newspapers, But We'll Be Much Worse Off When They Go Out of Business

Chris Hedges, Truthdig. February 6, 2010.

Don’t blame the Internet. The bloodless and soulless journalism of the traditional media left newspapers on the wrong side of the growing class divide and their readers.

Why the Press Is on Suicide Watch

Frank Rich, The New York Times. May 13, 2009.

Newspapers are a self-destructive retreat from innovation -- what's going to stop them from total collapse?

Nation's Major Newspapers Ignore Iraq War's Sixth Anniversary

Ben Armbruster, ThinkProgress. March 19, 2009.

Today marks six years since former President Bush launched the invasion of Iraq.

Will Your Hometown Newspaper Still Be Around in 6 Months?

Chad Rubel, BuzzFlash. March 1, 2009.

Newspapers have multiple problems, but the economic downturn is only a small part of it.

The Newspaper Industry Is Dying Before Our Very Eyes

Bill Boyarsky, Truthdig. December 18, 2008.

Newspaper management is hastening the industry's demise by chasing away talented journalists.

Palin on Which Newspapers She Reads: 'Um, All of Them'

Faiz Shakir, ThinkProgress. October 1, 2008.

That must take up a lot of her day.

Newspapers in Swing States Are Delivering Anti-Islam DVDs to Voters

Ali Gharib, IPS News. September 22, 2008.

The New York Times alone distributed some 145,000 copies of Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West to 11 markets.

Women Film Critics: An Endangered Species?

Jennifer Merin, DELETED. August 27, 2008.

The lack of female voices in film criticism is a manifestation of an industry that favors male-oriented movies and audiences.

How to Save America's Newspapers

Walter Brasch, The All Spin Zone. August 20, 2008.

Owners and publishers are downsizing the news and pretending to improve quality. It needs to stop.

Life and Death in the Media Business

Stanley Bing, Huffington Post. June 18, 2008.

Newspapers aren't any deader right now than any other coughing, wheezing business in this lousy environment.

A Bad Week for Journalism

Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. April 22, 2008.

Why Americans should care that print journalism is going down the drain.

Life Imitates "The Wire"

Lindsay Beyerstein, Majikthise. April 17, 2008.

The Baltimore Sun replaces crime reporters with a blogger.

Gutted by Money Men, Chicago Newspapers Circle the Drain

Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. February 20, 2008.

Buyouts, incompetent leadership, and a lack of reader support have all but destroyed Chicago's newspaper industry.

Chicago Sun-Times Editor Resigns Over "Wholesale Rewrites" of Obama, McCain Endorsements

Lindsay Beyerstein, Majikthise. February 6, 2008.

"It devalues and patronizes the editorial board writers who wrote the original endorsements: an African-American, a Latino and two white women."

Is The Onion America's Most Intelligent Newspaper?

Greg Beato, Reason Magazine. November 7, 2007.

While most newspapers are losing readers, The Onion is hiring 170 new employees and expanding its audience.

The Limits of Newsprint

Linda Perlstein, Columbia Journalism Review. September 24, 2007.

Why one reporter says she had to leave her job at a prestigious newspaper to adequately cover educational inequities in America.

The Future of Paper is the Future of Journalism

Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. June 25, 2007.

Right now, many companies are trying to figure out cool new ways to use paper. But who is trying to figure out cool new ways to employ smart, highly trained print journalists?

Building the Platform

Philip Barron, May 18, 2007.

Philip Barron: Former Post-Dispatch staffers band together to create a new, online newspaper for St. Louis.

The netroots? Just a gang.

Philip Barron, May 17, 2007.

Philip Barron: In subtle ways - and headline construction - are biases revealed.

Newspapers vs. weblogs: Some discussions are not as useful as others

Philip Barron, March 26, 2007.

Philip Barron: For readers of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the future isn't necessarily now.

Sure Bets in the Coming News Year

Rory O'Connor, AlterNet. December 29, 2006.

What changes and trends can we expect on the U.S. media scene in the coming new year?