NPR essay on losing "America's trust"

It is odd, I don't know of many newspapers who would allow a false statement to stand as fact or without clarification in print, and yet you see it a lot on TV news shows. Maybe some are pretty loose with their Op-eds, but you don't give your pages over as a vehicle for disinformation the way cable news does.

 

Worthwhile thread here from Jay Rosen at NYU.

 

Can you post the exact Tweet in which he bothers to makes a point from 3 years ago?

 

Jay Rosen believes journalism is a specific "social practice" for informing the public and holding power to account.

To quote The Dude that's, like, his opinion.

It may include those things. It may include more than that. But it's not social work attuned solely toward "holding power to account" as defined by people like Jay Rosen, who of course operate in the academy. That's what ideologically privileged people, usually in ivory towers, tend to do, for it does a nice job of keeping them as moral gatekeepers.

And there might have been a time when that made more sense. But people only trust academia slightly more than journalists today. There's a reason for that.

 

I wasn't sure where to put this, or if, perhaps, it should have its own thread. But I decided this would be a good place to present The Atlantic's contention that democracy dies behind pay walls.

Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls

 

Do paywalls involve Mexico?

 

Here's the gift-link to get non-subscribers past the paywall:

Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls

Not sure I agree, but it's a conversation worth having.

 

Its really not worth having.

how are we supposed to pay our bills

 

I think you have to read the piece. Stengel has suggestions.

 

Yeah donations and foundations is the silver bullet. Excuse me while I retch.

 

I guess I'm not sure what your argument is here. That 'elitism' and the 'professionalization' of journalism has somehow made it worse?

When was the great golden age of journalism?

100 years ago newspapers were a hotbed of racism, sexism, ignorance, partisan politics and fabrication.

 

Nonprofits may be a way forward. Or not.

Micropayments? Subsidies? Who knows?

But the collapse 0f the journalism business model as we knew it is ongoing.