by Sean Orr | Do Canada’s Newspapers Have a Future? Have you read one lately? You tell me.
Campbell paid $100 a person to oppose fish-farm protesters in 2003. Oh man, this trial is going to be fun.
Meanwhile, Jon at BR thinks G8 protesters should chill out and smoke pot. The Province wants to know if they are the same protesters who participated in the Black Bloc demonstration on the first day of the Olympics. Although I can’t say for sure, I think those protesters were the ones who participated in the Black Bloc demonstration on the first day of the Olympics and these protesters were the ones who participated in Friday’s anti-G8 protests (translation: it’s entirely possible that some people go to more than one protest).
Coast guard criticized for disturbing porpoises just south of B.C.. I read the whole article I can’t figure out why the porpoises are so disturbing. Do they have masks?
B.C. man accused of smuggling cash into U.S. Turns out he just wanted to get some cheap cheese.
Danger an occupational hazard for bloggers, amateur photographers. Tell me about it.
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It’s not just Canadian newspapers that are in trouble, it’s print media in general, and it’s too bad too. Print media has long been established as a trusted source of news, sometimes with a political bent, but with reporters who actually go out and get the stories, get the interview, knowing thats all they have to do, they are getting paid to do this. With the switch to online news there seems to be a phasing out of the actual reporter, we are slowly getting more and more reporting done by amateurs, bloggers, photographers, and I don’t think thats a bad thing, but they aren’t getting paid, it’s not a career for them so the coverage can’t be as in depth. It’s summed up well in the other article you link to. “If you look at the cutbacks in the industry . . . there’s less money for travel, for training, for all of that. So we have to get our information from somewhere” I think it would be a sad place if we lost our print media, part of it is the career it represents to so many, the other part is it’s tangible nature, I think it helps the viewer to become more engrossed in it, and it’s easier to take something out of it.