I just posted a new video at sageofspringfield.com from American News Project, of an interview with Dan Rather and Jim Lehrer that.
The piece titled "The Gospel according to Lehrer and Rather" by Davin Hutchins confirms my suspicions about the news media.
Showing posts with label news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label news. Show all posts
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
Bob Woodward has been compromised.
Journalism as a whole has been compromised by a need for easy interviews with state officials who dispense information for their own benefit.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
American News Project
Another online independent news gathering and disseminating service goes after the big fish and asks the tough questions! If a news network rejects your story, bring it here, or to one of many listed at http://www.sageofspringfield.com
A reporter goes after Karl Rove:
A reporter goes after Karl Rove:
Friday, April 18, 2008
Saturday, April 12, 2008
News Reporters
Bloggers are just as legitimate as "journalists."
The following is a summary of: Gans, Herbert J. The Famine in American Mass-Communication Research: Comments on Hirsch, Tuchman, and Gecas. The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 77, No. 4 (Jan., 1972), 697-705
The mass media Institutions
The mass media content
The mass media audience
1. News reporters do not have regular contact with their audience.
2. News reporters gather information based on their own value judgements.
3. News reporters need a quikly and easily applied set of methods to determine what data are to be gathered.
4. News reporters find only that which they can see and understand; that which coincides with their own beliefs.
5. News reporters work for a medium with a large heterogenous audience which they must not antagonize, offend, or confuse.
6. The same methods of gathering data continue to be used because they have traditionally withstood criticism.
Are the mass media under pressure to reflect audiences tastes in order to maintain a profitible operation? Or do the mass media simply decide the content from which the audience can choose?
A particular news medium attracts an audience who are either like-minded, or like-mided enough to tune out discordant elements through selective perception, or perhaps one uninterested and uninformed enough to leave it to the newscaster or editor to decide what is to be reported.
Most often, the news media recruit staff members whose basic values and assumptions about the world turn out to be fairly similar to the audience's, or an important part of it--which is why newsmen can so freely assume that the audience will agree with their judgments about what events are newsworthy.
Many media tend to reflect the values, or at least the wishes of their most conservative audience members who quickly protest when content becomes to controversial for them, although other media, particularly those which seek to attract younger audiences have recently begun to express the more controversial norms held my many young people.
The following is a summary of: Gans, Herbert J. The Famine in American Mass-Communication Research: Comments on Hirsch, Tuchman, and Gecas. The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 77, No. 4 (Jan., 1972), 697-705
The mass media Institutions
The mass media content
The mass media audience
1. News reporters do not have regular contact with their audience.
2. News reporters gather information based on their own value judgements.
3. News reporters need a quikly and easily applied set of methods to determine what data are to be gathered.
4. News reporters find only that which they can see and understand; that which coincides with their own beliefs.
5. News reporters work for a medium with a large heterogenous audience which they must not antagonize, offend, or confuse.
6. The same methods of gathering data continue to be used because they have traditionally withstood criticism.
Are the mass media under pressure to reflect audiences tastes in order to maintain a profitible operation? Or do the mass media simply decide the content from which the audience can choose?
A particular news medium attracts an audience who are either like-minded, or like-mided enough to tune out discordant elements through selective perception, or perhaps one uninterested and uninformed enough to leave it to the newscaster or editor to decide what is to be reported.
Most often, the news media recruit staff members whose basic values and assumptions about the world turn out to be fairly similar to the audience's, or an important part of it--which is why newsmen can so freely assume that the audience will agree with their judgments about what events are newsworthy.
Many media tend to reflect the values, or at least the wishes of their most conservative audience members who quickly protest when content becomes to controversial for them, although other media, particularly those which seek to attract younger audiences have recently begun to express the more controversial norms held my many young people.
Sunday, March 23, 2008
The Media on Barak Obama
Tim Russert and guests on NBC's Meet The Press were discussing the possibility that Barak Obama might be stuck talking about race, as if they themselves and the rest of the news media were not responsible for forcing him to do so.
This is called the "invisible stir-stick" effect. The news media creates the controversies they discuss on Sunday morning news programs, by distorting the context of the information they gather.
Think about the story of the story. A short look at MediaMatters.org will be highly educational.
This is called the "invisible stir-stick" effect. The news media creates the controversies they discuss on Sunday morning news programs, by distorting the context of the information they gather.
Think about the story of the story. A short look at MediaMatters.org will be highly educational.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
New news source added
In our "Looking Askance" section, I added http://www.coanews.org/ which I recently discoverd at the tail end of a YouTube video about Internet Neutrality.
If you're reading this, then you should be confident enough to make up your own mind as to the credibility of the individual stories submitted to coanews.org. There were some submissions that didn't have sources, a date or even a by-line, but you can register and submit your own articles, so it's at least a potential outlet for yourself, and perhaps a somewhat different audience.
If you're reading this, then you should be confident enough to make up your own mind as to the credibility of the individual stories submitted to coanews.org. There were some submissions that didn't have sources, a date or even a by-line, but you can register and submit your own articles, so it's at least a potential outlet for yourself, and perhaps a somewhat different audience.
Thursday, August 2, 2007
More news links added to site
More news links have been added to the site. One called "abyznewslinks.com" is an index of links to nearly every major newspaper and television news outlet in the entire world.
I started to compile a collection of general sources, but this one kicks butt. There are problems, however.
1. Most are main-stream news outlets.
2. Most of them are probably owned by the governments of the countries they cover.
3. Many of them could be operated by our government.
So one has to be very careful to check the framing of a story from more than one source. A good project for you students out there would be to compare international perspectives on a particular news event.
You can start by looking the news source that is the most distant from a major event, like the opposite side of the planet, and see if there is an article about an even here at home, then work your way around the globe to see other perspectives on the event.
I started to compile a collection of general sources, but this one kicks butt. There are problems, however.
1. Most are main-stream news outlets.
2. Most of them are probably owned by the governments of the countries they cover.
3. Many of them could be operated by our government.
So one has to be very careful to check the framing of a story from more than one source. A good project for you students out there would be to compare international perspectives on a particular news event.
You can start by looking the news source that is the most distant from a major event, like the opposite side of the planet, and see if there is an article about an even here at home, then work your way around the globe to see other perspectives on the event.
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