Journalism Without Journalists
As newspapers cut 1,000 jobs last week, Americans are getting their sense of the world less and less through human eyes and ears than from TV cameras abetted by well-groomed mannequins gushing over an endless flow of images.
Talking heads on cable and bloggers online parse and pick away at what the cameras see but there are fewer and fewer reporters to find out what’s hidden by using such old-fashioned skills as observation, questioning and legwork.
Where is the tipping point at which “news” becomes all opinion all the time about “facts” supplied by self-interested sources?
Newspapers are drowning in red ink even as Americans depend more heavily on what they do but don’t pay for the information they get from them digitally and advertisers don’t cover the costs of allowing them to continue providing it.
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2 Responses to “Journalism Without Journalists”
Jouranlism is going through upheaval and reinventing itself. How it comes out will depend on the corporations that now control them as they are the cause of the problems in the first place.
When journalism was for public service it was factual but, when it became a business built on returns money wise the quality went out the window. And with that and the rise of Fox in the early part of the decade, people flocked to blogs to get a better balance and to get away from rightwing spin and manipultions.
Instead of journalism getting better because of it, it became more and more entertainment in response with less and less credibility.
Until the press and journalism becomes more public service and more about facts rather then entertainment and created controversy and personal opinion of the noise machine, this cycle will continue to spin with the traditional media losing more and more.
We need more credible media that deals in facts and reality and less in ginned up stories and controversy for entertainment and spewing out falsehoods and inuendo.
It's not just because of the corporation's fault. Who wants to pay for news anyway. Or get news from yesterday when people can get news that is occurring at this very moment online or on tv.
And I wouldn't just blame this on conservatives. Reporters tended to overstep their bounds starting in 60s from reporting the news to creating the news. Most of which tended to be liberal. Fox definitely went overboard with it but they weren't the first to start injecting bias.