I think back for example, on in particular, the same sex marriage movement and the contortions that we had to go through as a state to finally arrive at the point where we determined it was OK for two people of the same gender to get married. On the other hand, I think Maine has shown some significant resistance to other social changes. And I think it's lifted the scales from a lot of old time, traditional Mainers' eyes that we can in fact welcome these folks as new neighbors, and all of us would be better off for it. My feeling is on balance, Maine is a much, much better place for that than it was. Of course, the whole debate over immigration and refugees and things like that is certainly crossed into our state. And with that has come lots of controversy. Well, demographically, certainly Maine has changed, particularly the southern part of the state and the coastal part of the state. In the decades that you've been here, what are the things that have changed? So in that sense, I think the tools are much superior to what we had 40 years ago. And I think if you look at, on a broader scale, if you look at what's happening in Ukraine right now, I think that the ability to convey to the world, what's going on there has been pivotal in galvanizing world response to it. You can turn on your phone, and go to Twitter, or wherever, and it's happening right before your eyes, often being presented by people who wouldn't consider themselves journalists, but more witnesses to think. I think it has given people a much clearer sense of the world, particularly in what we'd call, you know, breaking news situations where it's all about immediacy, and you no longer have to wait until 6:00 or 6:30, or whatever, to see what happened. I think just as the technology has been harmful, it has also been helpful.
Have you seen any positive changes in journalism in the last 40 years? So I think what you're hearing and I'm hearing the same thing, is the complaint from people that their brains are overloaded, they're getting too much. What is news is the question, you know, I mean, news used to be this carefully prepared, carefully curated, packaged product, and it's been splintered to the point now where it's hard, not only to tell what's news from what isn't news, but this is the big discussion we've been having for some time now, and that is what is fact or what is truth, versus what isn't.
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I think what they're saying is that they can't escape a torrent of information. I think the definition, or many people's definition of the news has changed. And I'm not quite sure what to make of that. And yet, people will say now, they just can't escape the news. Newspapers, certainly, but also magazines, even major network news divisions don't have as many people as they used to. Gratz: A lot of journalism institutions have been in decline. The way you did the job, on the other hand, hasn't really changed all that much. I've been doing that for 20 years, you know, you get a late call from a source and you have to literally cut into your news copy and paste in the quote. So years later, when we started hitting the cut-and-paste function on our computers, I remember thinking, Well, I know what that means. It was an old Underwood, non-electric typewriter, stack of copy paper next to it. Nemitz: The first night I showed up at the Morning Sentinel in Waterville, in 1977. This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity. That career began, Nemitz said, with a very different set of tools. Morning Edition host Irwin Gratz spoke with Nemitz this week about his career in Maine journalism. Bill Nemitz, a longtime columnist for the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram, announced his retirement this week.
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