ASNE Convention: Six Things that Should be on the Agenda

On The Media Center's Morph blog, Tim Porter takes the newspaper industry to task as we get ready for the 2005 ASNE convention:

"The death of newspapering as a viable economic and social medium is increasingly being foretold even by its practitioners. What do the gatekeepers of journalism's largest platform offer at their annual convention in the face of this bleak future? Bromides, blinders and an oddly self-abusing submission to speeches from politicians who disdain, abuse and manipulate the very press these editors are charged with preserving. (The latter, of course, is a sad reminder of the newspaper industry's desire to claim a seat at the establishment table - a primary reason for its widening separation from the communities it is charged with both reporting on and protecting from the excesses of society's ruling institutions, public and private.)"

Read the full post, and weigh in with your thoughts.