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Senate looking at 'future of journalism;' Arianna Huffington to testify
With layoffs continuing across the industry and the Boston Globe teetering on the brink of extinction, the Senate will examine "The Future of Journalism" during a Congressional hearing on Wednesday. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) will chair the hearing of the Commerce Committee's subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet.
The Capitolist has learned the witnesses will be Steve Coll, former managing editor of the Washington Post, Arianna Huffington, founder of the Huffington Post, James Moroney, CEO of the Dallas Morning News, Marissa Mayer, VP of Google, Alberto Ibarguen, President of The Knight Foundation and former publisher of the Miami Herald, and David Simon, former reporter for the Baltimore Sun, who went on to create such TV series as HBO's "The Wire."
Although it feels like a case of role reversal to see the Senate examine the media instead of the other way around, a House hearing in April trolled similar waters of awkward conversation between the coverers and the covered.
The Capitolist will be at the hearing, and we'll save a front-row seat for fellow Caps.
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Patricia Murphy
Patricia Murphy writes "The Capitolist" column for PoliticsDaily.com. She is the founder of Citizen Jane Politics, a non-partisan website for women... more
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Gregory Richards
3:59PM May 4th 2009
As they say a picture is worth a thousand words. An article about the "Future of Journalism" has two actors from a movie. What couldn't find any real journalist?
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lulu
4:09PM May 4th 2009
The future of journalism died in 2008.
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(6) Guys
4:10PM May 4th 2009
When something is already dead, why waste time thinking about it's future.
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(1) David S.
4:27PM May 4th 2009
Why is the Senate wasting their time with this? The last thing we need is grandstanding Senators talking about something they know nothing about. There isn't a damn thing any of them can about the potential failure of "The Boston Globe." While I like newspapers and still read them, the younger generation has moved onto other news sources, primarily the internet. In my view, it is tragic that newspapers are failing all across the country, but you can't put the genie back in the bottle either.
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(2) Gilda
4:48PM May 4th 2009
Speaking as someone who got her journalism undergrad degree more than 30 years ago, there are no REAL journalists left. All you have now are news readers and pundits/bloggers: the former touting a corporate line and investing a lot in hair and makeup, the latter infesting the world with their own personal (mostly ideological, uninformed) opinions. Sad but true.
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(7) Peggy
6:02PM May 4th 2009
Mentioning Journalism and Arianna Huffington on the same page is a contradiction in terms.
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(5) Lizzie
12:55PM May 5th 2009
Bravo
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(1) pvigilante
6:29PM May 4th 2009
hey another excuse for more government bailouts and obama can have his buddies run the papers after the government takes them over like gm and chysler
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(6) Niemand
9:52PM May 4th 2009
We now have cars made by Government Motors and soon we'll have news and commentary from Pravda.
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(3) dmmron
11:20PM May 4th 2009
BOY,HAVE YOU GOT THAT RIGHT. AS FAR AS PALOSI SHE SHOULD BE PUT UNDER OATH sHE IS AN OUT AND OUT LIER.........................
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(1) Lizzie
1:04PM May 5th 2009
Oh how soon we forget, everyone was after Palin for her wardrobe and now all the excuses for $540 shoes.
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