A very good, if a bit one-sided, analysis of the parlous state of American journalism. It is not without reason that I prefer to watch BBC America for my evening news rather than the Newspeak shills on ABCNBCCBS giving plausible deniability to the Big Guy. As far as how to advocate for reform in American journalism the challenge is almost Sisyphean given the legion of problems afflicting my first profession. So where to begin? Here are some discussion starters.
1) Restore the wall of separation between hard news (facts) and editorializing (personal opinions).
2) Establish a core of journalists who are content to report the news and not become the story.
3) Divorce the News Bureaus from the Entertainment Division of broadcast news corporations.
4) Base criteria in determining the newsworthiness of a story on the facts and not the ideological bias of either the reporter or the news editor.
Any of these four should provide grist for conversation. Cheers
A very good, if a bit one-sided, analysis of the parlous state of American journalism. It is not without reason that I prefer to watch BBC America for my evening news rather than the Newspeak shills on ABCNBCCBS giving plausible deniability to the Big Guy. As far as how to advocate for reform in American journalism the challenge is almost Sisyphean given the legion of problems afflicting my first profession. So where to begin? Here are some discussion starters.
1) Restore the wall of separation between hard news (facts) and editorializing (personal opinions).
2) Establish a core of journalists who are content to report the news and not become the story.
3) Divorce the News Bureaus from the Entertainment Division of broadcast news corporations.
4) Base criteria in determining the newsworthiness of a story on the facts and not the ideological bias of either the reporter or the news editor.
Any of these four should provide grist for conversation. Cheers