Authority in an interactive world comes from communicating, not from avoiding communication. Explaining yourself is not navel-gazing. It's a part of democracy.
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There is an inescapable logic to it. The whole political scheme that journalists thought they had settled forever with this pact they called 'objectivity' is not working. We don't have a media system that's aligned well with the more partisan political life of the country. The press will have to become more political.Jay Rosen
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The Times felt helpless, ... It couldn't print the news. It was very much trapped.
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Big Media does not know how to innovate, ... What capacity for product development do news organizations show Zip. How are they on nurturing innovation Terrible. Is there an entrepreneurial spirit in newsrooms No. Do smart young people ever come in and overturn everything Never. Do these firms attract designers and geeks who are gifted with technology They don't, because they don't do anything challenging enough. They don't innovate, or pay well. So they can't compete.
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In Peter Johnson's USA article I was quoted thusly Journalists seem to be much more effective than the administration in representing the public's reactions to the disaster, ... Clueless federal officials seem to know less about what is happening than the journalists do, and sometimes less than an average TV viewer. This tips the balance of power toward the press, which is why we see such aggressive questioning and on-air criticism close to jeering.
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