Columnist blames single moms for journalism
Chris Powell, managing editor of a NorthCentral Connecticut
In his piece, Powell laments the death of print journalism and briefly discusses the role the internet has played in this slow demise. After making a few valid points about the tendency for internet readers to know more about pop stars who can keep their clothes on than they know what going in in their own communities, Powell suddenly turns his ire onto an entire demographic: single mothers.
What need is there for knowledge of public policy and state and local government, Powell opines, in a world increasingly populated by the handicapped dependents of singleparent families.
He cites a statistic that 70 percent of community college and state university Freshmen haven mastered basic high school skills and reminds us that poverty is rising, democracy is sinking, and a ridiculous few people are voting in state and municipal elections.
social disintegration and decline in civic engagement coincide with the decline of traditional journalism just as much as the rise of the Internet does. Powell goes on to say that newspapers are still valued in traditional households, those with two parents who
cannot sell themselves to households headed by single women who have several children by different fathers, survive on welfare stipends, can hardly speak or read English, move every few months to cheat their landlords, barely know what town they living in, and couldn afford a newspaper subscription even if they could read. And such households constitute a rising share of the population. I don know this Chris Powell guy from Adam. I never ever read the Journal Inquirer. But I question how he got from struggling newspaper industry to single mothers so fast. I also take issue with his need to make all these scathing generalizations about the literacy and moral character of single mothers.
Truth be told, I rarely read my local paper anymore because the news therein is so often painfully boring. I used to
I do get a Sunday newspaper ever week, usually the New York Times, because I can trust that it filled with a diversity of
The decline of the newspaper goes hand in hand with the rise of 24 hour news. The paper is outdated about 5 minutes (or less) after it is printed. Also, 24 hour news has required to make stories out of nonstories to fill their time slots hence the rise of the entertainment news. Now people do that up but it is the news industry that turns it into a soap opera that can even grab my celebrityclueless husbands attention.
On top of that a good portion of people aren going to pay for news publications when they can get that same news free on the internet and a bigger variety.
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