Friday, January 15, 2010

NEWSPAPER CRISIS - MADE 2008

Manny Mendoza, a former News entertainment critic and one of the filmmakers behind the documentary Stop the Presses: The American Newspaper in Peril. He and his co-creator, Dallas-based documentarian Mark Birnbaum, finished the film in early 2008, just before its premiere at the AFI Dallas International Film Festival in April, a teacher say "I teach a class in mass media to young college students. It is unsettling to see from informal polls that only about 5 percent of my students ever choose to look at a newspaper -- ever. This seems to hold true up to about age 35."...MORE

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