priorities
There are two industries that I’m deeply immersed in and that desperately need fixing: the music industry and the newspaper industry.
The music industry is slowly fixing itself, and there is a new generation of artists fluent in the art of online self-promotion (myself included) who are bypassing the old structures. Nonetheless, they still exist, and still hinder real progress.
The newspaper industry is even worse off. Since that’s my current livelyhood, that’s my first priority.
I want to fix the way people get news.
I want to fix the way people think about information.
I want to restore the good names (and good salaries) of journalists.
I want truth and objectivity to return. I want the opinion columns kept to a minimum. Along with that, I want advertising kept to a minimum as well.
Anyway, these are the things in my head. These are the problems I’m thinking about when I’m not earning a living and trying to keep my job, which I’m more and more in danger of losing - not because I’m bad at it, but because the world seems to think it doesn’t need me. I want to prove just how necessary I, and those like me, are.
Some reading:
On the music industry:
On the fall of newspapers:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marty-kaplan/why-americans-hate-journa_b_117104.html
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080721_so_goes_the_newsroom_the_empire_and_the_world/
http://www.azdailysun.com/articles/2008/08/10/news/opinion/guest/20080810_guest_179148.txt
On what I believe is one of the main causes: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google
