The Independent: Demise of news barons is just a Marxist fantasy
Monday, 4 January 2010, 07:48 via Delicious/martinstabe
Yet another very odd column from Tim Luckhurst: "Citizen journalism's most devout evangelists are wrong. Their wisdom is purely ideological. In fact, the people who now predict the end of professional journalism's reign of sovereignty have attacked edited, fact-based reporting for decades. They think it is as an ideological invention created to sell myths to the masses. ... Forget it. Professional journalism will survive because it is necessary and the market will find a way to supply it. People who claim otherwise only pretend that their mission is prediction. In fact, they are working to mould the future to match a postmodern Marxist fantasy. " Read More...
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