Things I Used to Teach That I No Longer Believe |
[In Katrina, CNN] learned from Jon Stewart how to use simple juxtaposition to make a point, ... Clip of a federal official explaining how no one anticipated the strength of the storm. Clip from the Weather Channel proving plenty of people did. |
[In Peter Johnson's USA article I was quoted thusly:] Journalists seem to be much more effective than the administration in representing the public's reactions to the disaster, ... Clueless federal officials seem to know less about what is happening than the journalists do, and sometimes less than an average TV viewer. This tips the balance of power toward the press, which is why we see such aggressive questioning and on-air criticism close to jeering. |
Argument is what causes them to seek out more information. |
Authority in an interactive world comes from communicating, not from avoiding communication. Explaining yourself is not navel-gazing. It's a part of democracy. |
Big Media does not know how to innovate, ... What capacity for product development do news organizations show? Zip. How are they on nurturing innovation? Terrible. Is there an entrepreneurial spirit in newsrooms? No. Do smart young people ever come in and overturn everything? Never. Do these firms attract designers and geeks who are gifted with technology? They don't, because they don't do anything challenging enough. They don't innovate, or pay well. So they can't compete. |
Bob Woodward has gone wholly into access journalism. |
But what recourse do they have . . . complain to the publisher?, |
I don't see any reason why Yahoo could not establish trust and reliability as a common carrier -- that adjustable filter that Yahoo News is now -- and, at the same time, become a credible producer of its own editorial content, ... There are problems to solve in the dual track approach, because its requires two different kinds of user trust. The day when Yahoo starts hesitating to point out to the rest of the Web (because it covets the traffic for locally produced goods) is the day decline sets in. My guess is they know that. |
I don't see any way she could have returned to the paper because she had violated the code of professional journalism in so many ways that I didn't see the staff able to accept her again. I don't think her peers understood why she went to prison in the first place and why she left when she left. |
I just don't think there is any more Judy Miller credibility, |
I've been trying to cultivate relationships with wine retailers around the region. When their loyal customers are looking for a referral about a wine cellar builder, I'd like to be the one they suggest. |
It's a completely different landscape. And the White House and political folks have adapted to that environment more than the press has. |
It's always been the case that news organizations did things that weren't fully justified...(but) in the past, it didn't really matter, because there wasn't any way to challenge decision-making. |
It's striking that the lessons of their own self-study after Jayson Blair seemed to evaporate. |