keep barking, keep biting...

When newspaper industry is in the lowest point, especially in US, the New York Times managed to win five Pulitzer Prize in 2009. This is the most prestigious award in the US for journalism. The prize is 10.000 dollars or IDR106 million!!

It's not merely about the amount of the prize. According to the organization of the prize, this proved the strength of newspaper and whoever work in it. New York Times is in the brink of collapse, thanks to the global financial crisis. It has already cut a significant number of staffs and probably it only wait for time to close.
However, those facts didn't make them discourage to make outstanding works. Print media as watchdog, like Sig Gissler, manager of Pulitzer Prize, still barks, still bites.

In all but instant era like today, who still have time to read newspaper. If the newspapers has no interesting, spectacular, and well-writen stories, people will leave them. There are television, radio, internet, that give you abundant information, even for free.
That's where the strength of newspaper to display something different from other medias is tested. In that place too, the capacity of journalist is tested whether he/she can make qualified stories.

In Indonesia, print media industry is not as gloomy as those in US. Let's hope that in the "better" circumstances, journalist works in Indonesia has the same -or maybe more- quality as those who win the Pulitzer. Last but not least, let's hope that newspaper will always be the watchdog which is keep barking, keep biting...

Can we, guys????