So what big story in your lifetime did the print journalists miss? Cause they broke lots of big stories.

Those bound by journalistic ethics cannot make statements without multiple sources and citations so statements like, “It has already been reported and confirmed that the White House Chief of Staff confers weekly with Paul Begala (CNN contributor) and George Stephanopolous (CNN contributor) on how the White House should spin events for positive media coverage, so it is reasonable to think that the same type of contact goes on with the NYT.” How do you know this and what is the source of this story or theory? Besides the fact that the White House has a communications office, as did every modern president in history that talks to the media. For reporters this office is called a source. You see real reporters like those at the Times and Wall Street Journal have to stand by what they print, they search for facts as a base for their stories. Stories which are picked up by bloggers and TV and radio. Now some on the internet and television and radio consider themselves as opinion makers, they tend to just mix a piece here and there and draw conclusions from thin air. If print journalism dies the country will suffer, all of the country, liberals, conservatives, non-voters and bloggers because news will become, as it staggering towards, fiction.

However if you want to see if you missed some substantive stories you might go to this site, http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat they have a list of interesting and important stories that served the public good.

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