If we want free speech then we want less concentration of market power and business models that allow for that. Advertising does not. Token-based business models do.
Author: Fred Wilson | Subjects: Journalism, Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy
How do we cover these issues wherein opinion is extremely polarized but wherein our best judgment is that the truth lies more with one side. In general, the way we cover things is we quote people from one side and the other, and it’s a marketplace of ideas. We let the public decide where the truth lies, but there have been times when that model … [ Read more ]
Author: Nicholas D. Kristof | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Journalism
Larry Summers said that events are mostly negative and trends are mostly positive. Well, we [the news] cover events. If we want to be the first rough draft of history, it’s worthwhile to do a better job covering those positive trends.
Authors: Larry Summers, Nicholas D. Kristof | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, History, Journalism, Life & Society
Magazine and journal articles are usually the best forum for bold and original arguments […] most books […] tend to have (at best) a kernel of an important idea, padded with superfluous case studies and second-rate reporting.
Author: Benjamin Schwarz | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Journalism, Learning, Miscellaneous, Reading | Writing
Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.
Author: Frank Zappa | Subjects: Journalism, Music
Every reporter I know has to whore now and then, but damn if I understand those who pimp too.
Author: George Reedy | Note(s): Press secretary to Lyndon Johnson | Subject: Journalism
The true role of journalism is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Author: Finley Peter Dunne | Subject: Journalism