Fewer Newspapers= Death Of Innocents
What’s the worst part of the decline of newspapers? Oh maybe it’s all the innocent people who will DIE. Every time you don’t buy a paper you practically slip the noose around a condemned man’s neck!
Lawyerly types who work on trying to get innocent people freed from death row say that the fewer newspapers and reporters there are, the harder it is for them to find journalists who will work on stories about people wrongly jailed. Which is undoubtedly true! Just like there are fewer newspaper journalists to work on every other type of story that exists.
But strangely, the main complaint of the lawyers quoted in this story is how hard it is for them to find media outlets willing to join their cases as plaintiffs—something that has nothing to do with reporters, and everything to do with executives.
Anyhow, file this away with the other consequences of the decline of newspapers: fewer staffers to put some real thought into writing up your wedding announcement; fewer full-time Pet Beat reporters to cover kittens, and their cuteness; and the increasing chance that the reporter that lives next door to you may have to relocate to a cheaper house, meaning nobody will be there to alert you when your house catches afire as you sleep, and you burn up.
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@ChampagneSherpa: I hear they have already switched to hoarding take-out menus, candy wrappers and used wrapping paper.
@SidAndFinancy: a respected one at that!
They are also happy about me not making light of people melting to death.
I'd bitch about how the newspapers help defend democracy but they've failed at their job consistently for years. Fuck the useless turds.
@son of spam:
Most marriages are certifiable.
@SultanaEleusis:
Fannie, Fed, and Mac?
@resipsaloquacious: I have a problem with that proverb. Some wars are justifiable.
Yeah, there are some media outlets that will die a natural death (I just commented on the death knell of magazines). Court TV's original purpose was supposedly to give them another media outlet, until their audience realized most cases were very boring. Sorry,lawyer's: your work lives were deemed unworthy of the attention.
Although, to your last point, if there are less newspapers, perhaps the newspaper hoarders will have less newspapers to hoard (or at least the slenderness of them will lead to a slower accumulation time), leading to fewer house fires to begin with? This print demise trend may actually save lives in the balance.
But it's definitely a trade off: less inkstained hands vs. fewer impromptu rain hats. Who is to say where the ultimate good lies?
ChampagneSherpa
@HiredGoons: and when was the last time you ever saw a good old fashioned sack o money with a dollar sign on it?
Technology has ruined crime.
m4ximusprim3
@smithhimself:
I always liked the Spanish proverb: Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
resipsaloquacious
@bayktdin: Mom and I are very proud that you achieved your dream of becoming a felon.
@Queen of the Passive Aggressives: I know, let's get creative here people. Criminals are so lazy these days - no costumes, no elaborate easily-foiled traps, no zingy one-liners or catch phrases.
There was a time when my dad thought I was going to go down the tubes. He worried about me. A lot. It tore us apart for a while, probably tore a hole in his gut too. Getting PC'd, misdemeanors, hardcore partying, running with a bad crowd, almost always in the wrong place at the wrong time. All kinds of stupidity.
I worked my balls off, paid my way through college and I matured.
The perception that everything is going to go to hell if the print media keeps folding is just like a father worrying about his feral and wreckless son.
Hold it! You mean every quarter I spend on the NYT (backdated to the Times before online access) might be used by such as this Barry Scheck to free such as that Simpson creep? Is that the tie-in with the photo above? Because hardly any of the grandstanding gallery of goons of '96 use that case on their resume. They're all in rep rehab, the survivors.
@BookishLookish:
My advice for women in the bedroom: never point and giggle.
My advice for men in the bedroom: respect, reciprocate and sleep on the wet spot.
@BookishLookish: I was having a bit of a hectic day and reading your comment really relaxed me. Ahhhh.
Oh wait. Just remembered what I work in. Zoinks!
@bytememehard: My advice is always the same: Yes, you should. And call your mom.
Well the move it to television. If their murdering clients are creative and interesting in their crimes Nancy Grace will cover the story for a couple years then larry king will have her parents on to refute any negative coverage. TV works Amerika!
Queen of the Passive Aggressives
the main complaint of the lawyers quoted in this story is how hard it is for them to find media outlets willing to join their cases as plaintiffs
Is this the end of Gloria Allred and Mark Garagos?
@son of spam: Bookishlookish
Who will we turn to when Dear Abby is gone?
Think, also, of the effect on local business when there are no more reporters to cover the grand opening of the local Pep Boys franchise. That, in itself, is a good argument for some federal stimulus funds!
SultanaEleusis
Yes, I read this article this morning and wondered how long it would take Gawker to connect the dots and realize you are in cahoots with the state in killing people. MURDERERS!!!!1!