Jan 01 2009
Top 5 Predictions for 2009
The Anchoress has a 2008 round-up of end-of-year reviews. Plus she calls for predictions from the readers. Here are mine:
1. Local newspapers will survive while the big dailies continue their decline. Today Tim Dowd, publisher of the Port Huron Times Herald, explained how the local economy has led to changes in the paper. It’s a good paper, attentive to its readers and willing to go the long haul in investigative reporting (a rarity nowadays). I hope it survives.
2. There will be increased calls (perhaps even successful) to regulate Internet news sources.
3. Trusted newsbloggers will have egg on their faces when they’re taken in by a hot Internet story that turns out to be a hoax – or sophisticated propaganda by a political group.
4. Across the nation, liberals who revel in the decline of big businesses will be shocked and dismayed to discover how much their area’s arts, education, and recreation programs were underwritten by big businesses.
5. The black squirrel population will make a comeback across the Thumb of Michigan.
Those seem pretty spot on to me. I could add more, but once we’ve covered the black squirrel population in Michigan, everything else seems pretty unimportant….
Go on, Adrienne, add some more. Even if they pale in comparison to fuzzy rodent prognostications.
I especially like #4…
Happy New Year, MissJean!
Happy New Year, Kasia!
What are your resolutions (I mean, besides “Survive our wedding”)?