Sunday, February 24, 2008

ABQ Tribune's last edition

Cross-posted from SWOPblogger.
The world of news media - particularly with traditional daily and afternoon newspapers - is fluid and chaotic as the industry struggles with its failure to keep pace with changing technologies, content production dynamics and, simply, the world around it. Ironic for an industry dealing with what's "new," no doubt.

Yet, studies continue to show that public policy follows the agenda set by traditional, often corporate, press.

With the death of the Albuquerque Tribune, the state's public policy agenda is now almost solely in the hands of the Albuquerque Journal. Given the media's profound influence on how we vote, think and understand our world, today's final edition of the Trib is tough news for progressive public policy in the state.

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