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Newspapers

By: Tateru Nino

thompson-typo Newspapers are dead, some say. Newspapers are dying. Newspapers are transforming.

You know, whatever it is that they’re actually doing, I’d feel a whole lot better if they just went back to fact-checking and proof-reading.

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Categories: Culture, Media, Opinion.

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5 Responses to “Newspapers”

  1. Cyberkim says:

    That’s not an image I’m terribly comfortable with either…

  2. Lalo Telling says:

    You can probably buy one somewhere in Zindra…

  3. I think we bloggers have more than our share of cock ups.

  4. TigroSpottystripes Katsu says:

    damn you, now i gotta go read all the previous and previous and previous posts on that blog…

  5. Tateru Nino says:

    @Adric Oh, absolutely. Alas, we don’t have a fact-checker at work, but we do have proofreaders. When you’re working in paper and ink, I don’t see why you shouldn’t at least have the latter, and preferably both.


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