Saturday, June 12, 2010

Newspaper Woes Causing Horrible Statewide Poltitical Coverage

Budget cuts at newspapers have caused the quality of news coverage from sports to regular news to go the hell in a hand basket.

I see it here in Louisiana. This is going to be a familiar story. The result being I suspect we shall have worse elected politicos because they are not being vetted by the public because of a lack of information.

See Nikki Haley and Rand Paul Races: Where Have All the Reporters Gone?

2 comments:

  1. James,

    I'd argue that the cause-and-effect is the other way 'round. Most newspapers have been losing readers, and therefore cutting budgets, because they weren't providing useful information in the first place. I doubt a further decline in the quality of articles (or additional newspaper closures) is going to make any difference in the quality of our local politicians.

    I wonder: how many people who are truly interested in politics rely on newspapers? How many people who buy newspapers expect to see meaningful information? I buy a newspaper on weekdays for the crossword and soduku puzzles. I get my news online.

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  2. Well you have a point. THe problem is I am just seeing a major loss of quality in the Ganneett papers. Whicb in Louisiana owns a good many of the major papers.

    I mean if you don;t the staff on the ground then you can't cover people.

    But you are right there are reasons why they had to cut staff

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