Thursday, December 18, 2008

Loss of Daily Reporters Hurts Great Lakes

Thursday, December 18, 2008

In his turn as Guest Speaker for The Great Lakes Town Hall (www.greatlakestownhall.org), David Paulson of the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at Michigan State University makes an eloquent case for the role of the daily reporter. And his or her impact on the Great Lakes.

"When a sewer fails, water suffers. Level a forest and the critters flee. A purple loosestrife invasion chokes a wetland in weeks. But what's the impact on the Great Lakes environment of a failing system of news and information?
Huge..."

See Paulson's posting here:
http://www.greatlakestownhall.org/opinion/guest.php?forumid=3&topicid=1225&sid=124a03fd020c4a77fd24de10b6219fba#starttopic

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