Poll: No Support For FTC Proposals To Help News Organizations (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

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[Clay Moore]

[secondamendmentkid]

Nice post. How is Tonto doing?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The so-called “journalism” schools need to stop pumping out communist propagandists and start graduating only honest journalists. I know that would be a tough thing for them to do but if the “media” wants to survive, it is what they have to do.

You are assuming that the business Newswire Journalism is in is the one they say they are in. Their business model depends on interesting the public and flattering its audience that its product defines the public interest. But interesting the public and being in the public interest are two entirely different things.

Claiming to be objective is a central element in their claim to represent the public interest. But there's a funny thing about that - claiming to be objective is the opposite of actually trying to be objective.

The bottom line is that wire service journalism is inevitably tendentious.

[abb]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/business/media/14ftc.html?ref=business
Government Takes On Journalism’s Next Chapter

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/business/media/14cache.html
Other Countries’ Newspapers Are Faring Better Than U.S. Counterparts

http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/weary_king_eyes_ny_return_ae4dYZoaO2rsdVy2DLAG9O
Weary Larry King eyes NY return

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/newsday_union_troubles_face_impasse_ZwvhnAMGinsnZaQbjEL7zH
Newsday’s union troubles face impasse: Cablevision

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/14/citizen-journalism-hyperlocal-news
Citizen journalism: can small be bountiful?

http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2010/06/us_commission_searches_for_solutions_to.php
US Commission searches for solutions to the woes of journalism

http://tdn.com/news/opinion/article_6b4bc8de-75a0-11df-948e-001cc4c03286.html
Government-funded media isn’t the answer

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/24205
The relentless effort to control the news

[abb]

http://www.salon.com/technology/dan_gillmor/2010/06/14/pay_for_broadband_not_journalism_subsidies/index.html
Let’s subsidize open broadband, not journalists