{"id":983,"date":"2006-03-31T08:51:37","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T16:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=983"},"modified":"2006-03-31T08:51:37","modified_gmt":"2006-03-31T16:51:37","slug":"three-great-minds-on-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/31\/three-great-minds-on-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Great Minds on Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sam Freedman<\/a>, CBS News<\/a><\/i>; March 31, 2006:<\/p>\n

Instead of providing the ultimate marketplace of ideas, however, cable TV and the Internet have become the ultimate amen corner, where nobody ever need encounter an opinion, much less a fact, that runs counter to what he or she already believes. To treat an amateur as equally credible as a professional, to congratulate the wannabe with the title \u00e2\u20ac\u0153journalist,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is only to further erode the line between raw material and finished product. For those people who believe that editorial gate-keeping is a form of censorship, if not mind control, then I suppose the absence of any mediating intelligence is considered a good thing. <\/i><\/p>\n

Michael Kinsley<\/a>, Slate<\/i><\/a>; March 31, 2006:<\/p>\n

No one seriously doubts anymore that the Internet will fundamentally change the news business. The uncertainty is whether it will only change the method of delivering the product, or whether it will change the nature of the product as well. Will people want, in any form\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand will they pay for\u00e2\u20ac\u201da collection of articles, written by professional journalists from a detached and purportedly objective point of view? The television industry is panicky as well. Will anyone sit through a half-hour newscast invented back when everyone had to watch the same thing at the same time? Or are blogs and podcasts the cutting edge of a new model for both print and video\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmore personalized, more interactive, more opinionated, more communal, less objective?<\/i><\/p>\n

Nicholas Lemann<\/a>, The New Yorker<\/a><\/i>; March 27, 2006:<\/p>\n

Part of the pleasure of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Reilly Factor\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is knowing that O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Reilly is a guy with a temper, and he might lose it. He reddens, sits up, and presses the guest, who may begin to stammer helplessly (in which case O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Reilly usually pulls back), or to backpedal and make excuses, in the manner of Richard Rosenbaum (in which case O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Reilly keeps boring in), or to insult O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Reilly (in which case O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Reilly may begin yelling\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe big payoff). He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the beat cop for the American neighborhood, who may have been a little excessive at times, may occasionally have run afoul of Internal Affairs, but law-abiding folks trust him because they know he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s on their side. His liberal guests are like suspects he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pulled over: in the end, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s probably just going to frisk them and let them go with a genial warning, but if they try anything, well, he carries a nightstick for a reason.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sam Freedman, CBS News; March 31, 2006: Instead of providing the ultimate marketplace of ideas, however, cable TV and the Internet have become the ultimate amen corner, where nobody ever need encounter an opinion, much less a fact, that runs counter to what he or she already believes. To treat an amateur as equally credible as a professional, to congratulate the wannabe with the title \u00e2\u20ac\u0153journalist,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is only to further erode the line between raw material and finished product. For…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[103,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-journalism","category-media","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-fR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}