The death and life of the American newspaper
Eric Alterman in the New Yorker: The death and life of the American newspaper. Excerpt:
As early as May, 2004, newspapers had become the least preferred source for news among younger people. According to “Abandoning the News,” published by the Carnegie Corporation, thirty-nine per cent of respondents under the age of thirty-five told researchers that they expected to use the Internet in the future for news purposes; just eight per cent said that they would rely on a newspaper. ...
As the venerable “dean” of the Washington press corps, David Broder, of the Post, puts it, “There just isn’t enough ideology in the average reporter to fill a thimble.”
Unfortunately, in much of today's journalism, neither is there enough passion, voice or sense of wonder.
Terry Heaton at AR&D: Deconstructing professional journalism. Excerpt:
Lippmann is the “father of professional journalism,” and the apple never falls very far from the tree. And so we’ve had decades of an elitist press getting all comfy with the power brokers of the culture — in fact, becoming the NEW power brokers — and it is against this that the people of the culture are objecting.
March 27, 2008 in Media | Permalink
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