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TC Media Alliance Fall Media Forum
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The idiot monster and the news
That our news media is busted will come as no surprise to consumers of vanishing newspapers, shoutfest TV "news shows" and the unchecked political soapbox called the Internet.
But the devolution of our news media has now reached a point that is in some ways so extreme, and with the stakes for democracy so high, it seems useful to take stock.
Larger and larger swaths of the news media now embrace sensation and celebrity, harshly partisan rhetoric and gossip, rumors and lies to beat the competition and grab market share.
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK | Commenting on comments
Margaret Reinhardt writes:MORE »
"Sometimes I think that newspapers have lost their way given the competition with other news sources particularly television. Newspapers have always had something that TV news doesn't: the opportunity for readers to provide feedback via commentaries, letters to the editors, and op-ed pieces. Along comes online newspapers with a quick way to allow feedback, and publishers are back in the game of attracting readers. Indeed reader comments are popular, but are they the right thing to do?
McGill on the Media | The Politico Paradox: Feeding the media we hate
For just a brief moment before Politico.com co-founder John Harris spoke last Friday at his alma mater, Carleton College, he might have allowed himself to think that finally - finally! - he would safely be able to relax in the warm embrace of a completely friendly and appreciative crowd. MORE »
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK | Balloon boy's questions for journalism
The phony balloon boy story made headlines across the country, and raised questions about how the police and media got taken for a ride by a couple of unprincipled headline-hunters.MORE »
FREE SPEECH ZONE | Enough is Enough Lou Dobbs! | Ya Basta Lou Dobbs!
I've talked to a lot of people in my community that have never heard of Lou Dobbs in their lives. The truth is that he's someone who with his words has affected many of us.MORE »
Forum addresses journalism's comment conundrum
The Minneapolis Star Tribune, Minnesota's largest daily newspaper, receives 15,000 comments to its online stories every month. The St. Cloud Times receives comments by the thousands, as does the Pioneer Press. MORE »
Credit where credit is due
The ongoing debate over fair use ranges AP's attacks on aggregators to the question of when and how bloggers credit the original sources of stories. A parallel complaint from the blogosphere focuses on how the legacy media pick up stories or ideas from blogs, without giving any credit to the source.
Recently, for example, Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab reported:MORE »
NEWS DAY | Calling all information junkies
The Pioneer Press has just relaunched Data Planet, and it’s looking good, despite a few techno-glitches in the search function. Data Planet offers info on crime, health care, real estate, business, education, public employee salaries, politics and elections, and “general interest.”MORE »
Journalism and professionalism
Critics of new media often say that bloggers, aggregators, and "new media" generally are parasites on the work of newspapers and other "real" or legacy media. They say that newspapers and legacy media pay for the real reporting work, and then bloggers and aggregators just come along and use it.MORE »
