Peter Kann, chairman of Dow Jones, says The Media Is in Need of Some Mending. Quote:
At its best news informs and enlightens the citizens of a free society and thereby safeguards and strengthens our democracy. At its worst — dishonest, unfair, irresponsible — the media has potential to erode the public trust on which its own success depends and to corrode the democratic system of which it is so indispensably a part. So, let me touch on 10 current trends in the mass media that ought to disturb us.
on Dec 11th, 2006 at 3:15 pm
The fact that something as important as this is behind a subscription wall is one of the things that needs mending, I’d say.
on Dec 11th, 2006 at 3:20 pm
You’re right. I thought the opinion section was always public.
That’s truly stupid of them.