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Journalism: Is It Headed for a Big Bang?

Sep 21, 2012
by Caroline Miller
David Sirota, The Huffington Post
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I came across an interesting statistic about newspapers the other day.

 Even in their current moribund condition, newspapers in their print and digital formats are still read by about 75 percent of the adult population. (“The Only Game in Town,” by David Sirota, Harper’s, 9/12/ pg. 51.)  

This sounds like good news to lovers of print but like most happenings in life, there is a down side. The number of newspaper publishers is in decline — which means readers are getting their information from fewer and fewer sources. Consolidation, according to Sirota, allows the owners of the remaining presses to “sculpt the news to serve their personal interests.” (Ibid. pg 49.) And since radio and televisions outlets have “lost more and more of their reporting resources to consolidation and cost cutting, many [are] reduced to parroting the surviving daily,” thereby enhancing the influence of these newspapers.(Ibid, pg. 49)

Some folks have attempted to counteract the influence of a few media moguls by setting up blogs to present different views. The Huffington Post began as a blog and became so successful it now provides hard news. And the future may be rosier than appears. Sirota predicts that, like black holes in space, these behemoth presses might one day implode, becoming too large to be profitably managed. When that happens, then like the Big Bang, smaller pieces will emerge and with them the rebirth of competition.

If the author is right, that event will shed new light for us all.

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Portland, Oregon author Caroline Miller had distinguished careers as an educator, union president, elected official and artist/advocate.

Her play, Woman on the Scarlet Beast, was performed at the Post5 Theatre, Portland, OR, January/February 2015

Caroline published a serialized novelette, Marie Eau-Claire, on the website, The Colored Lens.  She also published the story Gustav Pavel,  a parable about ordinary lives, choice and alternate potential, on the website Fixional.co.

Caroline has published five novels

  • Getting Lost To Find Home
  • Ballet Noir
  • Trompe l’Oeil
  • Gothic Spring
  • Heart Land

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