Posted on 06/19/2006 7:09:26 AM PDT by abb
A decade after major news providers such as The Washington Post began publishing on the Internet, they are finally beginning to ask the right questions about what the Web can do for them and their readers -- and to realize how disruptive web technology is to traditional journalism.
Big guns such as the Associated Press's chief executive, Tom Curley, have admitted that the industry seriously fumbled its new media strategy for years by opting to re-purpose material produced to serve print and broadcast audiences.
Only recently has it begun to respond to the decisive, Internet-driven shift in the "balance of power" between news providers and readers by striving to deliver news "on-demand" and by developing truly interactive reports, Curley told the Online News Association in 2004.
"When the Web was born as a commercial content enterprise back in the mid-'90s, we thought it was about replicating -- that is, 'repurposing' -- our news and information franchises online," Curley said. "The news, as 'lecture,' is giving way to the news as a 'conversation'."
The earlier idea of re-purposing content was not innovative, but it was rational and cost-effective. The Web is flexible. It can "kinda/sorta" replicate an older format, if that's the goal. It's useful as a cheap, fast mass delivery system. "Trusted brands," the thinking went, could establish trusted sites, and transfer their reputations to the new medium.
Newspaper, radio, television ... Web! It made sense at the time. But in the 10 years following the birth of washingtonpost.com, the Net and its publishing platform, the World Wide Web, have proved harder to master, scarier to get wrong and more thrilling to get right than expected. Wilder, and discontinuous with the past in a way those coming out of traditional journalism never could have imagined.
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Rosen appears to be openly admitting that the Swift Boat charges against Kerry would have been suppressed by the MSM, if they'd still had the power to do so.
I wish the online newspapers would publish the complete ads they publish in print. Office Depot used to make their ads available by pdf. Perhaps they still do.
But I am still confused what replaces the old system. Yes, I know the old system is corrupt and have not maintained high standards................
At least we know who are enemies are now and where they are at.
Heh.
On the web -- we can fact check their sorry butts. That's gotta be a splash of cold water.
Good article.Quote:"Trusted brands,the thinking went,could establish trusted sites...."That's a logical assumption if the so called "trusted brands"were credible in the first place.Why would i want to read the NYTimes online if i can't trust the content in their daily paper?Could the msm have a credibility problem and not be aware of it?
They are so remarkably out of touch. Pretty soon their only "growth" audience will be the islamofacists stuck in their 11th century routine.
Any 14 year old could have set them straight 8 years ago about the flaws in their media approach. But then again I guess they weren't reaching any 14 year olds--interactively-(or 24 year olds for that matter).
The day after President Bush was re-elected in 2004, I suggested on my blog that at least some news organizations should consider themselves the opposition to the White House. Only by going into opposition, I argued, could the press really tell the story of the Bush administration's vast expansion of executive power.
So funny that the MSM is now in competition with the likes of the DailyKos and Dumbocrat Underground.
Give me the NY Times to run and I will make it profitable in less than a year. And I would make two changes.
1. For each leftist editorial written I would have an opposing view from the right.
2. Every AP story as well as every article written by a journalist will not have a slant. It will be told as truth.
What passed nicely as print stories seems rather threadbare as web material.
The way I feel online news reporting will end up?
A reporter will post an article...then stay online all day with the article to answer questions posted about it and engage in debate with those who disagree with the article.
This will have the effect of naturally driving reporting back to what it should be - fact based. Reporters who deviate too far from the truth would have a very rough day of debate and challenges from posters.
The left has been telling us since time began that there is no such thing as objective truth, that all truth must be judged by its circumstances
Here we see them reaping the seeds they have sown; undone by their own lies and weeping for it
It's a beautiful thing
Good, insightful post. Thanks.
He does get one thing right. His fear of the new face of news comes through loud and clear throughout his entire article.
And he should be afraid.
Perhaps not, but your use of the language meets that test.
Yeah. Who needs horror flicks these days when you get online Post-Toastie media content instead?
I believe this would occur only in the presence of massive gatekeeping functions designed to keep out the unfaithful.
Yup.
They haven't been "trusted brands" for about 30 years for me... that was when I got rid of my NYSlimes and "Times" subscriptions. Newsweak followed those down the rathole a few years after that, and the local newspaper only a couple years later. For a while CNN was reasonable, but they got flushed by 15 years ago. Radio news has been better, and thank goodness for talk radio. I never missed the newspapers distortions and lies and have been rather amazed at how long it has taken for them to die.
About 12 years ago, I started getting almost all of the news I trusted from internet sources - via "gopher" ... and between that, talk radio, and FR, I've seen only that my life is happier than it ever was, and that I'm better informed than anyone I know about national and international events.
Anyone who can say "trust" with respect to Old Media such as the newspapers and the FRAUDcasting networks can't be trusted themselves.
You can add a third change:
HONEST headlines and first paragraphs which describe the true gist of the story.
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