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No.322 SIM音読用英文

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Another One Bites the Dust
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This year, at least five U.S. daily newspapers

and uncounted weekly papers have closed

in the face of falling advertising revenue,

as readers turn to computers and handheld devices

to access their primary news sources online.


And now the industry's oldest journal,

the 108-year-old magazine Editor & Publisher,

is disappearing as well.


Its owner, the Nielsen Company, is selling several other magazines,

including the popular entertainment-industry publications

Billboard and Hollywood Reporter.


But it could not find a buyer

for the magazine

that some call the bible of the newspaper business.


Editor & Publisher, based in New York City,

had already scaled back

from a weekly to a monthly publication

five years ago.


It launched a Web site

that printed breaking journalism news.


That site, too, came down last week.


With a small staff

under editor Greg Mitchell,

the author of eight books about journalism coverage,

Editor & Publisher aggressively attacked

biased reporting

from both left and right.


"The main principle of journalism -

besides being accurate and fair -

is to be skeptical,"

Mitchell wrote in his column.


"It's a sad day,"

Philadelphia Daily News reporter Will Bunch wrote

on the online Huffington Post blog.


But, he added,

the folding of Editor & Publisher gave him hope

for journalism's future.


"If Greg Mitchell and his small staff can ask the right question

and not back down," he wrote,

"then I know it can happen again

and will happen again,

somewhere else and in some other format -

that no-holds-barred journalism is possible  

even on these weird little newfangled tablet or whatever."


Those newfangled tablets are electronic book readers,

one of the handheld devices

that helped put endangered newspapers,

and the magazine that was their bible,

out of business.


I’m Ted Landphair.
by danueno | 2009-12-22 15:45 | SIM音読用英文


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