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I'm in a hotel room in Madrid listening to CNN. What's the lead story? Michael Jackson was late to court. How do the journalists there -- people who got into the business because they are committed to an informed democracy -- feel about this outlandish pandering? Posted
by D. Weinberger at March 10, 2005 01:31 PM
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that the media is covering this story on front pages is just obscene. i wont' even buy a newspaper that puts it on the front page. what is more important?
Tsunami aftermath
The Lebanese situation
Ongoing trouble in Iraq
and so on
Posted by: James Governor | March 11, 2005 01:28 PM
This is what happens when 'news sources' are just as concerned with the bottom line/ratings as they are with content. CNN is getting killed by FOX and other 'shock' news outlets. It's the 24 hour monster that doles out news like a drug dealer to the masses who have the attention span of a 3 year old. Like James Governor points out, where is the coverage of Iraq? Leading up to the election it was all over the place...and now....it gets a brief mention...sandwiched in between Kobe Bryant coverage and MJ showing up to court in his Pj's. It stinks, it stinks big time
David Foster Wallace has a great story in the Atlantic this month about Political Shock Radio. Really breaks it down as the fraud that it is and of course with plenty of footnotes.
Worth the read.
Posted by: Will | March 11, 2005 02:00 PM
"If it bleeds, it leads".
By the way, replacing institutional journalism with popular bloggers is likely going to make the problem worse.
Posted by: Seth Finkelstein | March 11, 2005 06:28 PM