Posted on 12/14/2008 5:25:01 AM PST by autumnraine
Today, the media organisations look to Google to explain what is really happening in the world. Convinced that they can't lead, the only option left is to follow. So they reflect ourselves - or more accurately, they reflect the unstinting efforts of small self-selecting pockets of activists - back at us. In the absence of editorial confidence, Google - the Monster that threatens to Eat The Media - now defines the purpose of the media. All media companies need do is "tap into the zeitgeist" - Google Zeitgeist™!
Take this example from a quality British broadsheet.
One journalist on the paper lamented that:
...it's becoming all too clear at The Telegraph, whose online business plan seems to be centred on chasing hits through Google by rehashing and rewriting stories that people are already interested in. The digital director of the Telegraph recently suggested the newspaper could work even closer with Google... by subsuming its identity into the Ad Giant. Why couldn't The Telegraph run off a telegraph.google.com domain and allow Google to take care of all the technology? he mused.
P.S. And we wonder why the same old incorrect rehashed quote by the Hawaii official regarding Obama BC get put out there over and over.
I never thought I’d miss the Watergate guys.
** ... the same old incorrect rehashed quote ... **
and yet any Conservative Still Needs 3 corroborating sources if they state ...”The SKY is BLUE!”
also:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/12/googlewashing_revisited/page2.html
go to page 2
Horse before cart, they are journalists because they a lazy to start, that are math is just to hard!!!!LOL
They mention the “news” way too late and they get it wrong anyway.
Motto: “Yesterday’s News Tomorrow!”
Reporters have always had a herd mentality.
The “zietiest” of this age has already been written.
The men of print media have & will progress through the following sequence: from obscurity to social purpose, from social purpose to prominence, from prominence to power, from power to wealth, from wealth to commercialism from commercialism to social irrelevance, from social irrelevance to debt, from debt back to obscurity.”
One hopes at least.
http://www.devvy.net/audio/dec08/communitarian_hoax.html
Listen to Devvy Kidd read The Great Communitarian Hoax. Hopefully this will come back into print. It explains exactly what is occurring today in the USofA and how Socialism is spread through Mandatory Community Service and the easy ‘jump’ from there to mindless sheeple accepting Marxism.
Scary stuff. Listen and learn.
Top 10 suggestions for newspapers:
1) Fire “journalists”, hire “reporters”. A reporter does not have a journalism degree. He doesn’t actually need a degree, but if he has one, it should be in something other than journalism.
2) Reporters cover beats. This means physical areas like sections of town, or categories, like “crime & fire”, “city hall”, and “special events”. They have to know the people in their beat, personally, which means hanging out with them.
3) All you need to have a “wire service” is a password protected web site, and a quid pro quo from its members, that don’t have to be big media. If they take a news story, they give one back, which is rated by the other members. Quickly there will be more national and international news than you need.
4) The Internet will always win with quality, so newspapers have to beat it with quantity, by giving the same amount of news on one page that it would take three hours of web surfing to read. The pyramid style of writing is only for major stories, and inside, not on the front page.
5) Write for what your subscribers want to read, not what you want them to read. The days of an editorial “sob sister”, who writes to offend, are long over. Fruitcakes and freaks are not “responsible opposing viewpoints” to normal, sane people, and do not deserve equal time or a soapbox.
6) Reporters should have dozens of informants each, and pay them tiny amounts via PayPal for story leads. A dollar a story will strongly motivate a lot of grandmothers with time on their hands.
7) There are hundreds of Internet comic strip artists who would kill for a dollar a strip in a real newspaper. The heck with the syndicates.
8) If you can come up with a computer generated crossword puzzle from hell, a lot of people will drive 10 miles every day to get your paper, if they have to. But it has to be fearsome.
9) Create local celebrities among businessmen and scholars, and tout the other celebrities who live in the area. Veterans and old timers are always good copy.
10) Sponsor local high school competitions for minor sports, music, movies, etc., and run faculty approved student reporter write-ups for them. Boy and Girl Scouts, JROTC, and other organizations are very popular locally.
The journalist I know best has an undergraduate minor in physics, minor in math, and a masters thesis on non-linear dynamic modeling.
Covers the sports beat?
No matter the outcome of the old media, it’s fun to watch.
Anyone know of a good alternative to Google?
There are some lousy search engines out there but I would like to find a good alternative.
I don’t find it fun.
Sunday morning referring to the auto bailout they said:
Congress couldn’t decide. What when wrong?
Of course, Congress did decide. It decided against the bailout ... at this time. And nothing went wrong. The bail out is opposed by 78% or 98% of us, depending on how the question is phrased. But every single panelist on several programs presumed that “It went wrong”.
I don’t think you understood my post. I’m enjoying seeing the old media in melt down whenever and wherever it occurs. The reason is because of their elitist mindset and determination to do the public’s thinking for them.
In reading this post, my thoughts immediately turned to reports alluded to in your link.
This story is circular.
The media is loosing market share due to its history of censorship of stories and opinion. Google is stepping in to take it’s place and following the same pattern.
Liberals. Roboticly repeating things that didn’t work in the past.
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