{"id":72,"date":"2009-09-16T06:30:40","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T06:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2023-07-14T19:33:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T19:33:36","slug":"newspaper-industry-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/rant\/newspaper-industry-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Newspaper industry: Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous post, I had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/rant\/newspaper-industry\/\">some very negative remarks about the news media<\/a>.\u00a0 In this rant, I went over some serious problems in today&#8217;s news reporting that I don&#8217;t feel are being addressed.<\/p>\n<p>Despite some semi-constructive criticism at the end, I think it comes off as both weak and harsh at the same time.\u00a0 The tone is a lot meaner than it should have been, and yet in many ways my complaints don&#8217;t go far enough.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/09\/15\/dan-gillmors-eleven.html\">via BoingBoing<\/a> I was alerted to a similar posting by Dan Gillmore which says a lot of what I tried to say, only better.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/mediactive.com\/2009\/09\/12\/eleven-things-id-do-if-i-ran-a-news-organization\/\">Read his post here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(No really.\u00a0 Go read it.\u00a0 Come back when you&#8217;re done!)<\/p>\n<p>The key message of Gillmore&#8217;s post is that the news media has an important role in its community and a responsibility to maintain reporting quality standards.\u00a0 Some of his points are more important than others.\u00a0 I would argue that the online-only components (4 and 8 ) are actually the least critical; assuming the remaining suggetsions are actually put into play, links and online services are merely nice to have.\u00a0 Whereas interpretations instead of copying quotes, aiding the community as a top priority, etc. are absolutely mandatory.<\/p>\n<p>There is a simple conclusion to all of this: as a news organization, the responsibility to report the whole truth and nothing but the truth is key.\u00a0 Telling us what someone said is good, but without fact checking, it&#8217;s irrelevant.\u00a0 Our leaders bend the truth all the time, and if our news organizations don&#8217;t show us where reality ends and the distortion begins, then who <em>will<\/em> show us?<\/p>\n<p>For now, it seems, nobody will.\u00a0 What a shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous post, I had some very negative remarks about the news media.\u00a0 In this rant, I went over some serious problems in today&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Newspaper industry: Part 2 - MrEricSir.com","description":"In a previous post, I had some very negative remarks about the news media .\u00a0 In this rant, I went over some serious problems in today's news reporting that I do"},"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","autoblue_publish_document":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[44,21,20,22],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","tag-followup","tag-media","tag-news","tag-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10546,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/10546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}