In the 50's we had 6 newspapers delivered to our house throughout the day. It was unthinkable that we would not be privy to what was happening in our city, state, country and the world. In 1957, at age 13, I heard Patrice Lamumba on a radio broadcast say that in the US we got only two sides of one side of the world news. I was horrified. If this were true what was I missing. As a young teenager I began to subscribe to an English version of La Monde in order to see what the rest of the world was seeing. My disillusionment has only grown over the past decades. I also seek out voices of integrity which is one reason I subscribe to your newsletter.
The newspaper business was not ready for the internet and social media, and neither are readers. The news department is still doing good work, but the editorial board s are often bonkers and management is spineless.
My home was also full of newspapers, since I delivered the morning Detroit Free Press and Dad always like the Detroit News in the afternoon. The newspaper business was always a difficult one; they resorted to using children for distribution! Just kidding, but if you want to know what it was like I wrote about it here: https://falsechoices.substack.com/p/the-route
In the 50's we had 6 newspapers delivered to our house throughout the day. It was unthinkable that we would not be privy to what was happening in our city, state, country and the world. In 1957, at age 13, I heard Patrice Lamumba on a radio broadcast say that in the US we got only two sides of one side of the world news. I was horrified. If this were true what was I missing. As a young teenager I began to subscribe to an English version of La Monde in order to see what the rest of the world was seeing. My disillusionment has only grown over the past decades. I also seek out voices of integrity which is one reason I subscribe to your newsletter.
When you lose trust in a person because you know they lie then it is difficult to get that trust back.
It's similar for much of the mass media.
The mass media must regain our trust or they will decline even further.
The newspaper business was not ready for the internet and social media, and neither are readers. The news department is still doing good work, but the editorial board s are often bonkers and management is spineless.
My home was also full of newspapers, since I delivered the morning Detroit Free Press and Dad always like the Detroit News in the afternoon. The newspaper business was always a difficult one; they resorted to using children for distribution! Just kidding, but if you want to know what it was like I wrote about it here: https://falsechoices.substack.com/p/the-route