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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2012-06-11

"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government." -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (b. 1882-01-30, d. 1945-04-12)

[About that "well enough informed" bit: Dear Mainstream Media, I know your main job is to sell advertising, but I beseech y'all -- please put informing the public about important stuff back on your list of goals. Y'know, investigation and evaluation rather than regurgitating press releases and talking points, and analysis instead of FUD?]

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posted by [personal profile] pickledginger at 02:24pm on 2012-06-11
(But, but, reporting costs money!* press releases are free! What are you, some kind of socialist?)

(* Of course, news media outlets that focus on the news tend to perform better financially ... easier to sell a product when you have a product to sell .. but cutting half the Newsroom staff looks all proactive and productivity boosting abd plays better in the this-calendar-quarter-focused boardroom.)
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posted by [personal profile] twistedchick at 02:28pm on 2012-06-11
Of the people who attended journalism school with me, about half left the business years ago, and the other half are retiring/being forced out/losing their jobs to business closures or buyouts. One of the young reporters I worked with is still working at a major paper. The best depth reporter I know has been working in advertising for more than a decade; two more, plus the best remaining professor I had are management consultants.

The changes in the business in the past three decades have resulted in a criminally bad waste of talent and training, a mountainous increase in misinformation and drastic lessening of literacy in terms of both current events and the legal and cultural context for them.
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