I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.
I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.
Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.
No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.
Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.
The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.
A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us.
From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want.
I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell readers what they most want to know - the score - won't last long. Better he should teach political science.
Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.
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