As I was engaging in my daily media consumption, I ran across a blog discussing an alternative newspaper for the Boston area entitled BostonNOW. This paper's aim is to capture the uniqueness and true personality of the people who make Boston so appealing. In an attempt to do so, the paper will feature BostonNOW staffers work alongside of ordinary citizens work.
Although this idea has good intentions of delivering news that people want, I fear that publications of this nature will only continue the downward spiral of credibility in current media. In efforts to better the news, the news only gets worse.
If other individuals located in major urban areas of the nation decide to follow in these footsteps, what will be left of the "news" world? Sure, people will be entertained by non-traditional news outlets, but will they really gain anything significant? I believe it is the duty of all individuals to partake in consumption of traditional news media and limit consumption of non-traditional outlets such as the upcoming BostonNOW.
Disclaimer: BostonNOW is not to be confused with Boston Standard's website http://www.bostonnow.co.uk/ or Boston's chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) (http://www.bostonnow.org/)
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