...The illusion of neutrality is one of the reasons for the rotten state of journalism ... the scandal currently erupting in Canada ... how quickly [journalism] standards are falling.
How's that for an out-of-context quote?
UK Guardian columnist George Monbiot
recently wrote about how public TV broadcasters, the BBC and CBC, are failing the public because of the broadcasters' conflicts of interest and lack of journalism ethics.
He concludes with:
Those entrusted to challenge power are the loyalists of power. They rage against social media ... without seeing that the popularity of alternatives is a response to their own failures: their failure to expose the claims of the haut monde, their failure to enlist a diversity of opinion, their failure to permit the audience to see that another world is possible.
I will argue that all of this applies to many of this country's largest daily newspapers as well. The last point, that social media's popularity as a news source is a response to the news media's many failures, is the important point for newspapers.
Publishers still refuse to look in a mirror and they fail to see social media for what it is. It is not the enemy. Until newspaper publishers wake up (and they won't -
papers will die off first), it'll be
"Groundhog Day" everyday for a few more years. (Or the
real Groundhog Day)
Topic: A Rotten State (Read 1183 times)