DEDICATED TO BJ ALUMS FOUNDER HARRY LIGGETT 1930-2014, BJ NEWSROOM LEGEND 1965-1995, AND TO JOHN OLESKY JR., 1932-2024, BJ MAINSTAY 1969-1996 AND BLOG EDITOR 2014-2024. Blog for retired and former Beacon Journal employees and other invited guests.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Real journalists no longer needed
'In an era where Paris Hilton and Angelina Jolie’s breastfeeding earn the most hits off our website, maybe real journalists are not needed.
"But the public will be far poorer for it — and I worry about the citizenship, educational and democratic implications of it all.'
~ Debera Harrell, Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter
From Sleepless in Seattle, thoughts and reglecctions from staffers on the demise of their 146-year old newspaper published in Columbia Journalism Review
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