The decline of the great newspapers of America in our ordinary life could be seen as sad and tragic for grandparents and as an excellent opportunity for another disaster, the capital of an engaged, tech experts nephew.

The gap generation gap between the two is not so much a preference as a giant abyss. It is not only a difference of media delivery systems. There is also a difference of thought, faith, innovation, progress and hierarchy. We are a nationcelebrates and idolizes the young.

The old have little space in this new world, they are often respected or tolerated. And 'likely that they will be kicked to the curb. Imagine the television commercial where the boy gives his grandmother a ride to go where it is and when she opens the door when they arrived, he literally kicked out of the car screaming still moving, "Tuck and Roll, grandma, tuck and roll" .

Now we once respected andsee major newspapers. One area that was born in the colonial period, reached its peak first radio was posted, with the advent of television, and neglects the presence of the Internet and data protection, is now at risk of extinction.

It 'been a journalist, the source of expression and the distinction of being the "fourth state". The moniker was apparently rooted in 1789 when Louis XVI at Versailles was a plenary meeting of the "General Assembly convened. The estate consisted of 300 firstClergy, the Second Estate the nobility and the Third 300 600 congregations.

Years later, after the French Revolution, British politician and statesman Edmund Burke, looking at the press gallery of the House of Commons, said: "There sits the Fourth Estate, and they are the most important of all."

the use of the written word to denote the first printing by Thomas Carlyle in his book On Heroes and Hero Worship in the year 1841, when Carlyle remarks quoted Burke.

It 'wasNewspapers, the first on the proud tradition of exposing the misconduct of government officials who wanted to take the politicians and those who sought to gain advantages over others. Newspapers were the guards who kept a watchful eye on the rich and powerful.

The rapid decline and fall from grace of newspapers is really sad and tragic. I spent the first 20 years of my professional life as a publisher of several weekly newspapers, an investigative reporter, editor and sports managementPublishers of newspapers, and the owner of a newspaper publisher.

It was still an exciting ride, when I left the business in early 1980. In hindsight, I realize that the newspaper industry, already down, when I started my career in 1960.

The newspaper industry has been blinded by the Internet. owners and managers of newspapers simply do not realize, and calculating the loss of business in which cut heavily into their internet classifiedAdvertising revenue. They have been slow to market websites and re-establish their business in a changing economy.

Potential young readers have been sold on the Internet, and drew him like bees to honey. The revolution of video game reinforces exactly what the younger generation had already heard that newspapers were on the way out.

Newspapers also compounded the problem by rewarding a few bright, but stubborn to stop journalists recording and reporting the facts and allowsspits out all sorts of personal journalism in the name of the alert. The result is propaganda disguised as news.

Readers did not have the facts and allowed to draw their own inferences. Readers have led to an account, often idiosyncratic of writers who think they know more than their readers. How many times in history, the politicians thought they knew more and more common sense than the mass of people are gathered?

The list of the most importantAmerican newspapers that have already failed on the edge of the law or otherwise as a list of Who's Who in the history of journalism. And now some in Congress have launched the idea of saving money for members of a great wrong to this once venerable institution. This would be a grave mistake.

The same newspaper owners, publishers and journalists, who refused such a despicable level as to become mere political shills for politicians and government officials that they deserve. Get

If the newspaper industry deserves to survive in America needs to get back on the market for a population change rather than social and political tripe from a group of editors and journalists who are God's gift to journalism, when in reality they think they very unnecessary claims to serve.

great journalism begins in the heart is full of integrity, honesty and clarity succumb, not political pressure, social engineering agendas and disinformationand hatred.

Copyright © 2009 Ed Bagley