[AEJMC Newspaper Division list] Division name

[Michael Abrams]

The "Newspaper Division" could include the "New Media Regiment" and the
"Agenda Battalion." As Gen. George Pickett responded to Gen. R.E. Lee who
asked him to gather his division after the bloody charge up the hill at
Gettysburg, "Gen. Lee, I have no division."



On 8/23/10 7:39 PM, "Bill Reader" <reader at ohio.edu> wrote:

> Just to add to the debate, Rupert Murdoch and company are referring to their
> proposed national startup as a "digital newspaper." The word "newspaper" means
> more than ink on paper, just as "online magazines" or "online radio" transcend
> the legacy media that inspired them. It seems that the membership is pretty
> unified (with the exception of a handful of devout tree-pulp fans) in the
> notion that online news is the here and now, and certainly the future.
> 
> Here's a sobering aside: Pew recently found that one fifth of American adults
> do not use the Internet. 20 percent is statistically significant in this case;
> my own math against Census Bureau predictions puts that number at about 47
> million U.S. adults who are decidedly offline. NNA's recent study of community
> newspaper readers found that 30 percent of community paper subscribers don't
> have Internet in their homes.
> 
> And an observation: I live in a very rural community, one that was recently
> featured in a Dateline episode about poverty in Appalachian America. The food
> bank profiled in the show is about two miles from my house as the crow flies,
> and about 10 miles away taking the most efficient path of gravel roads. As I
> drive those roads, I see many, many newspaper tubes, for three community
> dailies that by most standards are sub-par both in print and online. None of
> the three papers cover our community very well, except when there is crime or
> disaster, and most of my neighbors live paycheck to paycheck, drive swaybacked
> pickups and run-down Pontiac Grand Prix's, scramble from part-time job to
> part-time job, and many live in decades-old trailers that remain standing
> through sheer ingenuity on their parts ... they are far from affluent or
> middle-class, and yet they subscribe to ink-on-paper newspapers. The baby
> boomers are just starting to retire, and I know many of them: They love their
> newspaper rituals, and are not so keen on sipping coffee in front of a
> computer screen (although that's certainly how I get most of my news these
> days).
> 
> I agree that as scholars we must look to the future, but we also must not let
> that future blind us to the present--many people today get their news from
> online news sources, and many still subscribe to newspapers. The numbers of
> newspaper readers, including ink-on-paper readers, are in the millions here in
> the U.S., probably approaching a billion or so worldwide.
> 
> It's a good debate and I agree with many in the 'change the name' camp that
> the division cannot be stuck in the past. I don't think "Newspaper Division"
> is stuck in that past; it is logically and reasonably rooted in the present.
> 
> Peace,
> 
> Bill R., Ohio U.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Aug 23, 2010, at 4:49 PM, Shaw, Donald wrote:
> 
>> I have not had time to read all the messages but, like some others, I prefer
>> the Newspaper Division title. The New York Times and Washington Post remain,
>> in my judgment, the major agenda setters for other American media, including
>> new media, and newspapers play the same role in local communities, certainly
>> not without competition.
>> Donald Shaw
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: news-list-bounces at aejmc.net [mailto:news-list-bounces at aejmc.net] On
>> Behalf Of Raleigh Mann
>> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 10:19 AM
>> To: news-list at aejmc.net
>> Subject: [AEJMC Newspaper Division list] Division name
>> 
>> Dear Colleagues,
>> 
>> Ed Lambeth speaks eloquently and with wisdom.  I enthusiastically
>> support his position and would prefer that we continue to identify our
>> division as the Newspaper Division.
>> 
>> Raleigh Mann
>> emeritus, North Carolina
>> former head, Newspaper Division
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