User talk:Maureen

A dying industry is the greatest field?? A ZOMBIE ANT 11:34, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Journalism isn't dying. Print publishing is dying. Big difference. Journalism is actually alive and well, though it's being diluted a bit by people who like to call themselves "journalists" but are actually just bloggers or Internet publishing rags repeating the things they hear. For instance, the "news" reporting this week of Google buying ICOA highlighted the difference rather well, since the story turned out to be utterly false and based on nothing at all. Despite that, dozens of blogs, including quite a few major ones (Gizmodo, The Verge, Engadget, etc.) reported it as fact without doing any checking of their own, only to have AllThingsD, which is run by the Wall Street Journal, actually do the checking and discover rather quickly that it was a complete falsehood. While some bloggers definitely are journalists, many more of them are failing to hold themselves to the ethical and professional standards of real journalists. —Aichon— 20:00, 27 November 2012 (UTC)