Tapsearch Com EditorNewspapers are an endangered species
February 1st 2010 17:58
The future of newspapers
Elizabeth Sullivan, Editorial Page Editor for the Cleveland Plain Dealer (Ohio, USA) wants ideas from readers on how to make their newspaper better. She is a real journalist. She is one of the best edtorial writers in the business and since she became the Editor of the editorial page, I miss her penetrating articles that were always supported with obviously deep research. She did not just take things off the news services and add a personal slant to them. She is the one that exposed the real story about Hillary Clinton's Balkans war story experience. See comment section following article at Jobs lost in the Clinton era.
She asks readers to send their ideas to ideas at the Plain Dealer or you can reach her directly at E. Sullivan at the Plain Dealer ( No spamming allowed )
She could be better informed if all who find their newspapers bias or guilty of Journalism by Omission. This is my main contention. The bias news is bad enough but ignoring stories is worst. Last year the Plain Dealer main news project had investigator reporters digging into the illegal activities of local government officials with many being investigated by the FBI. Unfortunately, some decent former political leaders were caught up in the process while the crimes of trans-national corporations go unreported. I had to find out about these crimes from a magazine publication out of England. Some of the super investigating reporters should be put on some of the free trade and globalization lies and crimes.
The biggest problem in news reporting of all kinds is the fact that workers have no voice in the process of globalization and free trade. A top author and education consultant reviews my thoughts at Communications by Rank Stories are told about workers with workers seldom telling the stories themselves. They are treated as The Unnetted - who are outside looking in at the celebrations of free traders, the stock market and the investment communties. However, now our economies based on making money on money instead of making things are burning out. President Bush and President Obama bailed out big money while ignoring the plight and the real tangible value of labor and workers.
This brings me to the next question that is still unanswered in the news media. Who said we had to compete like this in a global economic arena. I have asked this question since 1992 when I read a high tech publication that showed how companies could move their production to Mexico and operate on a fraction of the costs in th USA. There was even one option in these maquiladora factory programs, where a company could fire everyone, close down their factory and cut out all taxes and regulations by hiring a contractor in Mexico who would do the whole thing at one cost per workers per hour. The only thing left would be the executives and the brand. I was surprised to find out a few years ago about an old employer of mine whose brand still acted as the face to the customer but the factory was now in Korea with all the 5000 workers in the U.S. gone.
However, this was not the worst part of the story. It also told how the U.S. Federal Government sponsored the moving of factories outside the USA since 1956 which so happened was the same year the globalization of money took over after the Suez Canal crisis. It was supposed to be a temporary program but it never ended. It was called free trade. I keep asking everyone in any leadership or news roll about this and I am still waiting for an answer.
The next question surrounds Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. He said something the whole world should have heard and passed on. The only one I know who did pass it on was Elizabeth Sullivan. See Making money on money economy burns out.
During the first President Bush stimulus package debate in Congress, Ben Bernanke was asked what was the best way to stimulate the economy. He answered, - The best way to stimulate the economy is to buy "domestically produced goods." You would think that this would have made headlines not only in newspapers in the USA but also across the globe. This electrifying news was short-circuited by all the news media. It gave the answer to all that was wrong about free trade and globalization and to even to the investment communities. It gave the answer to what caused the global economic crisis .
Newspapers need to survive. They represent a hard copy of information that is actually more mobile than the mobile phone and text messaging. We can take it anywhere with us knowng it has a full function. It should be called Hard Copy News. Some newspaper people claim the internet is taking over with many even stealing the news - see ( Copyrights instead of copy cats ) but there is much more to it than that. People go online for news because they can search out the real news in a more partial way. They like to see someone agreeing with them or at least feel what they are taking in is objective truth. Newspapers seemed to be more bias with less objectivity.
Let's take globalization. Recently a movie was made about the bloody protests against globalization in Seattle in 1998 . See our article about it at Battle in Seattle Lost. This demostrates how the will of the people can be controlled by news of omission. An ombudsman at a newspaper will reply that people are not interested in it as a subject as we see a little bit of it happening again and again at global meetings of the elite. See Ted Diadium Take it or Leave it News. On top of this, the Editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer actually said in an editorial that they will push Globalization like it or not. To me this is a death wish of a newspaper.
See also http://
We will continue this article in the comments below :
Elizabeth Sullivan, Editorial Page Editor for the Cleveland Plain Dealer (Ohio, USA) wants ideas from readers on how to make their newspaper better. She is a real journalist. She is one of the best edtorial writers in the business and since she became the Editor of the editorial page, I miss her penetrating articles that were always supported with obviously deep research. She did not just take things off the news services and add a personal slant to them. She is the one that exposed the real story about Hillary Clinton's Balkans war story experience. See comment section following article at Jobs lost in the Clinton era.
She asks readers to send their ideas to ideas at the Plain Dealer or you can reach her directly at E. Sullivan at the Plain Dealer ( No spamming allowed )
She could be better informed if all who find their newspapers bias or guilty of Journalism by Omission. This is my main contention. The bias news is bad enough but ignoring stories is worst. Last year the Plain Dealer main news project had investigator reporters digging into the illegal activities of local government officials with many being investigated by the FBI. Unfortunately, some decent former political leaders were caught up in the process while the crimes of trans-national corporations go unreported. I had to find out about these crimes from a magazine publication out of England. Some of the super investigating reporters should be put on some of the free trade and globalization lies and crimes.
The biggest problem in news reporting of all kinds is the fact that workers have no voice in the process of globalization and free trade. A top author and education consultant reviews my thoughts at Communications by Rank Stories are told about workers with workers seldom telling the stories themselves. They are treated as The Unnetted - who are outside looking in at the celebrations of free traders, the stock market and the investment communties. However, now our economies based on making money on money instead of making things are burning out. President Bush and President Obama bailed out big money while ignoring the plight and the real tangible value of labor and workers.
This brings me to the next question that is still unanswered in the news media. Who said we had to compete like this in a global economic arena. I have asked this question since 1992 when I read a high tech publication that showed how companies could move their production to Mexico and operate on a fraction of the costs in th USA. There was even one option in these maquiladora factory programs, where a company could fire everyone, close down their factory and cut out all taxes and regulations by hiring a contractor in Mexico who would do the whole thing at one cost per workers per hour. The only thing left would be the executives and the brand. I was surprised to find out a few years ago about an old employer of mine whose brand still acted as the face to the customer but the factory was now in Korea with all the 5000 workers in the U.S. gone.
However, this was not the worst part of the story. It also told how the U.S. Federal Government sponsored the moving of factories outside the USA since 1956 which so happened was the same year the globalization of money took over after the Suez Canal crisis. It was supposed to be a temporary program but it never ended. It was called free trade. I keep asking everyone in any leadership or news roll about this and I am still waiting for an answer.
The next question surrounds Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. He said something the whole world should have heard and passed on. The only one I know who did pass it on was Elizabeth Sullivan. See Making money on money economy burns out.
During the first President Bush stimulus package debate in Congress, Ben Bernanke was asked what was the best way to stimulate the economy. He answered, - The best way to stimulate the economy is to buy "domestically produced goods." You would think that this would have made headlines not only in newspapers in the USA but also across the globe. This electrifying news was short-circuited by all the news media. It gave the answer to all that was wrong about free trade and globalization and to even to the investment communities. It gave the answer to what caused the global economic crisis .
Newspapers need to survive. They represent a hard copy of information that is actually more mobile than the mobile phone and text messaging. We can take it anywhere with us knowng it has a full function. It should be called Hard Copy News. Some newspaper people claim the internet is taking over with many even stealing the news - see ( Copyrights instead of copy cats ) but there is much more to it than that. People go online for news because they can search out the real news in a more partial way. They like to see someone agreeing with them or at least feel what they are taking in is objective truth. Newspapers seemed to be more bias with less objectivity.
Let's take globalization. Recently a movie was made about the bloody protests against globalization in Seattle in 1998 . See our article about it at Battle in Seattle Lost. This demostrates how the will of the people can be controlled by news of omission. An ombudsman at a newspaper will reply that people are not interested in it as a subject as we see a little bit of it happening again and again at global meetings of the elite. See Ted Diadium Take it or Leave it News. On top of this, the Editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer actually said in an editorial that they will push Globalization like it or not. To me this is a death wish of a newspaper.
See also http://
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When Cleveland Plain Dealer changed their policies about long letters, I gave up trying to say things in just 200 words and even if the short letters were good ones, the information was limited in its reach.
The sad part of it all is that my main Ray Tapajna Chronicles site and all the letters and topical art work can be read and viewed as if it as happened in recent times. By now they should be obsolete and not a forecast of our economic crisis.
The Plain Dealer also did a story about my topical artwork - titled Power to the People in their old Sunday Magazine which no longer is published. The story was chopped up a bit from what I told the reporter but I was grateful to the Plain Dealer anyway. You can see the story featuring The American Dream Is Burning at Taps News Story File Tap Com
I also had a topic published on the Federal Trade Commission Site more than ten years ago that still reads as if it is today - titled - If this is a good economy , I would hate to see a bad one at Ray Tapajna Chronicles id 4.
So the old news is the new news and I keep wondering why the newspapers missed these stories over the years.
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All in one Free Trade Political Party and -
Making Money on Money economy burns out and - for more see Tapsearch Com Super Links or search under Tapsearch Com for thousands of references and results - Search under the title of our most popular artwork - Search under - Clinton Years American Dream Reversed - and you will find more than 3 million search results on Yahoo.
How could the news media miss this all and leave it out of the news?
More than ten years later, I now write about my own Journey in the global economic arena .
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