- If „Bad News” is any example of Posner’s technique, he does it as fast as he can, takes five minutes and a cigarette to recharge, and repeats. Posner’s essay diagnoses the „conventional news media” as „embattled,” „rocked by scandals, challenged by upstart bloggers” and the „focus of controversy and concern.” Deploying four words where one will do (perhaps that’s the secret to his productivity), Posner asserts that the arrival of the new media (by which he means cable news networks, Web sites, blogs, et al.) has forced the established media to move stories faster, hence sacrificing accuracy. Also, in a panic to attract a share of the fractured audience, the conventional media have embraced sensationalism, he writes. Likewise, economic pressures posed by the new media have caused media polarization, „pushing the already liberal media farther to the left.”
He ignores journalistic history as he spots emerging „trends” and gets basic facts wrong…
i z końca:
- How could blogs have played any role in eroding public trust by 2002 when almost nobody in the mainstream had heard of them? The press loves to seize on new trends, especially techno-trends, but the word „blogs” doesn’t appear in a Nexis search of all U.S. newspaper and wire stories until 2000, when it was mentioned in 22 stories. In 2001, the word appeared in 67 stories. In 2002, the concluding year of the survey cited by Posner, it appeared in 359 stories. That’s too few by a factor of about 100,000 to have had an impact on the public’s view of the press.
no, tak.
chyba rzucę blogowanie…
to nie może mieć sensu. tak napisano.
(a jak napisano to to musi być Prawda, prawda?)