Tom Rosenstiel Quotes (28 Quotes)


    Then, when she embroils you in a legal tangle over the matter, instead of monitoring the situation as closely as possible, you put the discretion nearly entirely in her hands. You do not know what's in her notes. And when you believe you are backing her b

    It's not unheard of to wait for a news peg. It's not unusual to discover the existence of something and not know the context of it until later.

    had the respect of the hard-boiled editors and investigative reporters, but he managed to thrive and triumph in the more corporate environment of today.

    The onus is increasingly on the news consumer to seek out what they should be interested in, rather than being passive and saying 'I'll watch CNN and this will tell me what I need to know'.

    At a time when newspapers need to make a major long-term transition into the new kind of online journalism, companies are driving off the old-school editors. They burn out because they spend all their time on budgets, not journalism.


    These are people who know each other producers, TV executives, book publishers a relatively small group of people.

    Maybe part of their brilliance is they're not as guilt-ridden about it.

    What he's saying may be good press criticism but I'm not sure it's good law.

    each one synthesizing and adding to what others are learning. If only one or two news organizations do it, it won't have the same effect.

    There are elements to the story that, if handled well, can help improve the way the public perceives the press. The other thing is that the press is doing a bunch of things that are new. They are reading e-mails, saying, 'I am looking for my nephew ... so-and-so, if you can hear me, please call.' That's community journalism on a national scale and I think that will go a long way to demonstrate that the press is doing more than just thrill seeking.

    It's not up to a news organization to let its source substantiate the news for them. The news organization has to be skeptical of the information it receives, verify it independently, then run it by the subjects of the story for comment.

    This is about managing images and not public taste or human dignity.

    This is the dark side of synergy. One of the few things that people still trust about the American media, unlike media in other countries, is that you can't walk in with cash and pay for a story. That perceived integrity is a lot more valuable than any one interview.

    The question is how many news organizations have the investigative muscle to handle a story this complex, and how many can afford to lose a team for the time it will take to do that, especially in TV, ... I fear the list of news organizations that can do that today is not very long. And sadly, it gets shorter if ad sales go down and other news pushes Katrina off our radar screens.

    Research suggests these kids are only running with the curve. A June survey by the Pew Research Center found that while most respondents look favorably upon their local media, their perception of the press in general is more negative than ever. The public is not rejecting the principles underlying traditional journalism, ... Rather it suspects journalists are not living up to those principles.

    He looked like the king of muscle beach and he was a surfer. But he had vision. He believed that for a city to be great, it had to have a great newspaper.

    (It's) indicative of larger trends that are going on in journalism, in which citizens are becoming their own editors, and even their own producers, of news. It's much easier to get information from distant places now than it was a generation ago.

    It varies by market, but you can generalize and say this 2005 was a very difficult year for newspapers. If you don't see this cutback, you do see others.

    We know from various studies that women do not consume news in the same numbers as men. These numbers suggest that one reason may be that women don't see themselves in the news as much as men. The numbers suggest that the news does not fully reflect the breadth that women now play in American culture.

    While the piece hardly clarifies everything, the Times should be praised for its candor.

    Citizens should be very nervous anytime that courts are ordering news organizations to hand anything over.

    In an election year, and at a time when the public and politicians are increasingly skeptical of the press, we thought it was particularly important to find out what journalists themselves thought of their profession and their performance.

    Journalists are trying to make the distinction between leaks that are political and leaks that are whistle-blowing.

    It's the illusion of more information, but it's actually a lot of repetition.

    What distinguishes Nightline - the heart of its appeal - is its intelligence, seriousness of purpose, integrity and its depth.

    Power is shifting from the journalist setting the agenda, to the consumer becoming their own editor - deciding what their media diet will be. We're in the fast food news culture, where you've got a huge buffet. (And) we do almost nothing in the media world to teach people what they need to know to be an intelligent consumer of news.

    In five years, we may think that whatever tweaking was done to the nightly newscasts in 2006 was less important than what each network did to create an online newscast something accessible at different times during the day or at least after a certain time during the day, and something that gets updated.



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