I feel very sad for those journalists who will need to hit the road out of the state to find work. If they can find work anywhere as a newspaperman then they will be lucky. It is a dying job market as young people and advertisers go digital. It is inevitable.
The New York Times had a good story on this Country's miserable internet infrastructure. Blame corporate greed for that. Think Comcast especially who over charge and underserve this city in order to buy more systems in other markets which they will then exploit. Some of the cities' with the best internet systems are ones that the cities built themselves. Think about that Mayor Berry.
And finally, there are words of wisdom in this latest blog by David Brin.
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The Albuquerque Journal has been out-done by bloggers and outside news media including the LA Times, NY Times, the Associated Press and the National Journal. This is just embarassing. I canceled my subscription this year and I kept it one year too long. The coverage on interim police chief Banks was enough for me -- it could have been written by a PR person or maybe it was. The Journal has the Up Front columns but, while they occasionally cover worthy news like the Mary Han mystery, they have resorted to fluff columns over the past year. Do we really care that Ms Gutierrez Kruger scored a free latte or someone is looking for a long lost photo?
Take a look at the story in the LA Times about LA county hiring LASD rejects:
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-badge-county-hires-20131229-dto,0,7777028.htmlstory#axzz2p3IDlswW
LASD is a force of almost 11000 cops. Then compare the joke APD and Abq are with all but ZERO reporting of their endless embarrassments by the Journal. Not only is their no accountability, but the paper does disgusting fluff pieces on its chief malfeasant. And all these endless fiascos by a dept 1/12th the size of LASD. What a joke...
The LA Times has covered many stories about NM including the APD shootings. The NY Times covered the ranch foster care - CYFD showdown and Mary Han. The National Journal covered Gov Martinez and her puppet master McCleskey. The Associated Press has two lawsuits against Gov Martinez for her calendars, phone records and expenses for her security detail. The Albuquerque Journal failed at every one of these stories.
Having lived in Provo for a few years I would argue against government funded internet systems. After putting in more that $40 million dollars of tax payer money they sold it to a private company (Google) for $1. I've read about similar debacles in other cities.
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