Comments on: Study Attacks Newspapers http://blogwonks.com/2008/04/19/study-attacks-newspapers/ Opinion Matters Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:39:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Squiggy http://blogwonks.com/2008/04/19/study-attacks-newspapers/#comment-1615 Squiggy Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:27:58 +0000 http://mensnewsdaily.com/?p=79513#comment-1615 anti armchair generals, you're blaming "government" for newspapers lies. You're saying they just pass on "governments" lies without checking. Only if it falls into a newspapers narrow category of "important news". What we used to call "propaganda". Not to say "government never lies", but newspapers are dying because of self-inflicted wounds. The NYT is whining about loss of circulation and yet it continues to do the same old, same old. Even as they collapse they blame others. It couldn't be because they just make stuff up, and everyone knows it (except a few die-hard libs who don't care - but there's not enough of them to float anything). anti armchair generals, you’re blaming “government” for newspapers lies. You’re saying they just pass on “governments” lies without checking. Only if it falls into a newspapers narrow category of “important news”. What we used to call “propaganda”.

Not to say “government never lies”, but newspapers are dying because of self-inflicted wounds. The NYT is whining about loss of circulation and yet it continues to do the same old, same old. Even as they collapse they blame others. It couldn’t be because they just make stuff up, and everyone knows it (except a few die-hard libs who don’t care - but there’s not enough of them to float anything).

]]> By: college activist http://blogwonks.com/2008/04/19/study-attacks-newspapers/#comment-1614 college activist Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:58:40 +0000 http://mensnewsdaily.com/?p=79513#comment-1614 With the advent of the internet, mainstream media is gonna have to start getting their act together, or risk obscurity. With the advent of the internet, mainstream media is gonna have to start getting their act together, or risk obscurity.

]]> By: anti armchair generals http://blogwonks.com/2008/04/19/study-attacks-newspapers/#comment-1613 anti armchair generals Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:36:30 +0000 http://mensnewsdaily.com/?p=79513#comment-1613 Example from "News and the Culture of Lying" "Weaver's claim is that journalists and public officials combine to fabricate artificial crises of public policy that end up being "covered in the media, reacted to by the public, and dealt with by government" as if they were real. In short: officials tell lies by inflating the urgency of things, and journalists compound the fraud by passing them along in supposedly objective--but inherently uncritical--ways. The result, he argues, is both bad government and a journalism that is "stupid and dysfunctional," practiced by reporters who are little more than "dependent, submissive, narcissistic courtiers" to the officials they cover." Example from “News and the Culture of Lying”

“Weaver’s claim is that journalists and public officials combine to fabricate artificial crises of public policy that end up being “covered in the media, reacted to by the public, and dealt with by government” as if they were real. In short: officials tell lies by inflating the urgency of things, and journalists compound the fraud by passing them along in supposedly objective–but inherently uncritical–ways.

The result, he argues, is both bad government and a journalism that is “stupid and dysfunctional,” practiced by reporters who are little more than “dependent, submissive, narcissistic courtiers” to the officials they cover.”

]]> By: anti armchair generals http://blogwonks.com/2008/04/19/study-attacks-newspapers/#comment-1612 anti armchair generals Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:33:04 +0000 http://mensnewsdaily.com/?p=79513#comment-1612 Alan Korwin, Sorry if I'm repeating my previous post about Paul Weaver's book "News and the Culture of Lying (Columbia Journalism review). I also agree with "The Uninvited Ombudsman" comments in your column. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3613/is_199411/ai_n8731174 Alan Korwin,
Sorry if I’m repeating my previous post about Paul Weaver’s book “News and the Culture of Lying (Columbia Journalism review). I also agree with “The Uninvited Ombudsman” comments in your column.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3613/is_199411/ai_n8731174

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