The Frontline documentary exposing journalism and news in the contemporary offered some very interesting angles. I took a particular interest in how the documentary took a "backstage" perspective, interviewing leading names in news presenting.
The segment covering the Los Angeles Times took me by surprise. With a huge profit margin, greater than that of fortune 500 companies, the argument for the LA Times to be making budget cuts, to my shock, was to appease share-holders. I guess I didn't realize the business well enough or was too naive to realize why papers were having cuts in scenarios like that of the LA Times.
The discussion about "citizen journalism" was also interesting. I've heard a good deal of arguments concerning who owns journalism (the professional or the average citizen) and it was good to hear boht sides of the argument presented next to one another.
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