Another Crazy Idea ...

Apparently inspired by Sunday's column in The New York Times by Frank Rich, someone at the CEJournal suggests essentially the very same action proposed right here at Know Newspapers back in February with "The Petition to Unplug."

Please visit our FAQ at this link to learn more about the effort.

Here's a snippet from the similar suggestion made recently at CEJournal:

"What if journalism went on strike for, say, a week? No Boulder Daily Camera, Chicago Tribune, New York Times, no ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN (but Fox can continue because it’s not journalism) for an entire week. No WINS radio or KQED. No Time or Newsweek, and no Associated Press dispatches. ESPN? It goes dark. All sources of news, investigation, and non-fiction narrative — off the air, off the Internet and off the newsstands for a week.

What would Google News and all the other blood-sucking news aggregators do? Where would bloggers like me get their bloviational fodder? How would citizens know that a deadly new strain of pandemic flu had just broken out in their local high school? How would they hear that the Taliban in Pakistan had just stolen a nuclear weapon and were threatening to blow up New York City?"

Be sure to read the column by Frank Rich, who observes "Whatever shape journalism ultimately takes in America, make no mistake that in the end we will get what we pay for."

As for the petition ... it has less than 500 signatures to show for more than three months of effort, a situation that I hope is mostly the result of how averse journalists are to signing petitions.

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-- TJ Sullivan

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