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RazaPanjwaniFirstPaper 3 - 09 Apr 2009 - Main.MahaAtal
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What Nicholas Kristof and the Denver Broncos Suggest about New News Sources
| | | -- By RazaPanjwani - 27 Mar 2009
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> | Raza: You lay out the main arguments usually made by new media optimists, but I'm not sure you've advanced them, or responded to their critics. | | | | |
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> | There are many fan-blogs that are credible sources of information, but providing information is only one piece of what reporters do. Lots of journalism--think of CIA or State Department correspondents--involves ferreting information from officials who DON'T want to share it, when there hasn't been any specific EVENT, like a sports game, for you to interpret. It's the difference between a story that begins with "This happened" and a story that begins with "This will be happening," and it's the difference between news that is flashy and news that is a bit dry. That kind of reporting emerges from people who spend 60-80 hours a week talking to people on their beat and don't have time for another job to pay their bills. So the only ways to do that are A. to make money doing it or B. to be a Medici. I am one of those who thinks there may be ways to make money online (probably in combination with some nonprofit funding) but until that happens, new media won't supplant old.
The issue is not whether there will be enough content, but whether there will be all the right kinds of content: where is the citizen blogger reporting, on the day BEFORE the Fed makes it choice, what the new interest rate will be? This also goes to your point about people's insatiable demand for information online--the thing about old media models is that they were able to feed people news they needed but didn't necessarily want by putting it on a page with news they wanted but didn't need. I have no doubts about the survival of sports column/punditry on the web, but I have my doubts about reporting on school board meetings. Ezra Klein, who is a huge advocate for new media, admits as much in this video.
I, like you, am less worried about the ideological echo chamber, because I think it's easy enough to aggregate from diverse sources so long as journalists of the future are taught in J-school that this is what they're meant to do. | | | \ No newline at end of file |
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