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Friday, June 18. 2010

The audience will decide the future of journalism

Jack Fuller has an interesting essay on the future of journalism and the news, and it is worth reading if only to see how older dead-tree newspeople view the world.


I disagree with much of it, and with his premises too. Plus his brain thing is just silly. Anyway, I have no time to share my thoughts about it this morning.

Posted by The Barrister in Our Essays, The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 10:25 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Fantastic piece! I love these more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger diagnoses we get from pompous journalistic failures. I commented over there; I won't repeat it here.
#1 Texan99 (Link) on 2010-06-18 13:42 (Reply)
feeble minded thoughts:

Reads like a variant of "the peasants are too stupid to know good news reporting when they read/see it."

In addition he seems to think the peasants are too stupid to choose which news pieces are important and which are not, and it is up to journalists like him to figure out a way to force feed us topics we are not interested in.

I didn't realize that 'heavy news seekers" were turning to MSNBC. I thought their ratings were microscopic? Has this ignorant peasant missed something?

He realizes, but rues the fact that the audience controls the market.

And I agree with you Barrister. I believe he is a typical example of a dead tree journalist.

Heh.
#2 feeblemind on 2010-06-19 09:57 (Reply)
Yeah, the connection between the neuroscience and models of journalistic practice seems pretty weak to me. Not to mention the fact that research like that should precisely reinforce WHY it is important to avoid overly capitalizing on emotional appeal and influence. That fact that our thinking is so easily swayed by emotionally charged content only reinforces the importance of attempts at objectivity and neutrality. There are some great pieces about the future of journalism and its connection to new technologies at http://www.ourblook.com/topic/future_of_journalism.html which I have found useful on these subject.
#3 Bill on 2010-07-08 16:15 (Reply)

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