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Kinsella on Canwest journalists
Blogged Warren Kinsella:
“My sincere hope, naïve as it may be, is that the amazing journalists and editors at Canwest hold onto their jobs, and that they emerge stronger than before.
“Someone needs to be thrown under the bus for this mess, but it’s not the working journalists, that’s for damn sure.”
Hear, hear.
Blogged Warren Kinsella:
“My sincere hope, naïve as it may be, is that the amazing journalists and editors at Canwest hold onto their jobs, and that they emerge stronger than before.
“Someone needs to be thrown under the bus for this mess, but it’s not the working journalists, that’s for damn sure.”
Hear, hear.
[node:ad]Deborah Jones
October 7, 2009
I appreciate your sentiment
I appreciate your sentiment of journalists not taking the hit over a publisher’s greed and mismanagement, but I also know from personal experience that journalists consciously ignored the problems for many years.
As a small business owner I’ve asked journalists for years to step up, but was ignored and at times even had my character maliciously attacked.
Many of us outside the news industry saw this coming years ago and we called it, but few listened. The journalists that did speak out hit a brick wall and either backed off, left of their own accord, or were fired, while their colleagues silently watched.
When you are part of an organization you can’t simply look away from the train wreck and say, “It’s not my fault.”
It’s wishful to think that only Canwest will take the hit, so don’t gloat. And it’s also naive to think anything will return to where it was, or stronger than ever.
Look to the music industry to see the pattern of disruption the internet inflicted upon on the once buoyant entertainment industry. It’s deja vu.
News jobs will be different, but for most, not necessarily better.
News however, will be better.
Of that I am sure.