It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets.
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Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.
I really do think we're going through a period of concentration of ownership of media, and we're starting to see the effects at the editorial level, and it's all bad. This increased pressure for profits every quarter, smaller news hole, less coverage of important stuff - the extent that it's become one giant infotainment industry.
Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
I think people are sort of waking up to it now, how probably the biggest change in Internet media isn't the immediacy of it, or the low costs, but the measurability. Which is actually terrifying if you're a traditional journalist, and used to pushing what people ought to like, or what you think they ought to like.
Diversity is essential to the success of the news industry, and journalists must include diverse voices in their coverage in order to reach a broader audience. We have stories to tell, but many in our audience have stopped listening because they can tell that we're not talking about them.
Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.
Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.
Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.
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