US: Newspapers need to respond to critics
“Bloggers who assail us as the MSM, the mainstream media, as if that is a badge that should shame us… You know what they say; we’re the liberal media. We’re elitists…We’re unpatriotic,” he said, adding that he views the attacks as "bullshit."
Zeeck’s solution? For newspapers to do what they’ve thus far been uncomfortable doing: respond to critics. Newspapers’ best weapon, he says, is great reporting that simply does not exist yet in other news venues. “Who is the Yahoo reporter at my city hall?” he asks. “Where is that Google reporter risking his life in Iraq?”
Zeeck urged editors to push solid investigative reporting and to write a weekly column explaining their newspapers’ decisions to readers.
“I’m not ready to give up on news,” he said. “Let’s use whatever sources we do have.”
Source: Editor & Publisher
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Librarians have responded to Baker with considerable vigor by writing letters and articles in defense of the profession and holding meetings and conferences. Last August, Richard Cox, a professor of information sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, published Vandals in the Stacks? in response.
Unfortunately, the refutations penned by the library community have struggled to counter the claims made in Double Fold, not least because many have tended to address other librarians rather than the public at large.