{"id":401,"date":"2009-01-07T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/01\/07\/contemplating-a-world-without-times\/"},"modified":"2009-01-07T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T19:56:00","slug":"contemplating-a-world-without-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/01\/07\/contemplating-a-world-without-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemplating a World Without Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200901\/new-york-times\">The Atlantic&#8217;s Michael Hirshorn has a grim assessment<\/a> of the future of newspapers, specifically the New York Times.  Not ten or twenty years from now.  This year&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In December, the <a target=\"outlink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fitchratings.com\/\">Fitch Ratings service<\/a>, which monitors the health of media companies, predicted a widespread newspaper die-off: \u201cFitch believes more newspapers and news\u00adpaper groups will default, be shut down and be liquidated in 2009 and several cities could go without a daily print newspaper by 2010.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yikes.  Blogs and online journalism are revolutionary, for sure.  But newspapers like the Times &#8211; and the Watertown Daily Times, the Plattsburgh Press-Republican, and the Glens Fall Post-Star in the North Country &#8211; pay people to stay on top the bread and butter of news&#8230;monitoring governments and their politicians, reviewing court documents, and investigating deeply.  Granted, none are perfect, nor is any paper, radio, or TV outlet.  But a hemorrhaging of daily beat newspapers would be an unspeakable loss for journalism, and for democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic&#8217;s Michael Hirshorn has a grim assessment of the future of newspapers, specifically the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}