What Happened to Newspapers?
As a former journalist, I get asked from time to time to
explain what happened to newspapers and where journalism is headed. In that context, a friend recently sent me a
book by Joe Strupp called “Killing Journalism: How greed, laziness [and Donald
Trump] are destroying news and how we can save it.”
Suffice to say that while the book contains interesting
insights, the title is misleading. This sort of sensationalism is exactly what
Strupp accuses all too many publications of doing: in fact, it is one of his
major themes. Why do it? Because it sells, which brings me to one point readers
need to keep in mind: the old Pogo adage of “we have met the enemy and he is
us.”
