{"id":10970,"date":"2007-12-12T00:45:16","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T21:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/12\/the-state-of-mass-media\/"},"modified":"2007-12-12T00:45:16","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T21:45:16","slug":"the-state-of-mass-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/12\/the-state-of-mass-media\/","title":{"rendered":"The state of mass media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I really enjoyed this interview of Mike James<\/a>, done by Terry Heaton.\u00c2\u00a0 Simple, direct, and to the point.\u00c2\u00a0 Some things discussed are obvious to anyone with a common sense.\u00c2\u00a0 Others are not so.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Here are a couple of quotes to get you started.<\/p>\n

Television news (if you believe it is a form of journalism) has the ability…the responsibility…to capture and preserve the moments, the events, that pass through our daily lives. Instead, it has fallen back on trivial weepies and frothy feel-goods, on medical “studies” and video news releases, or political spin and opinionated shoutfests, hypothesis, rumor, and supposition. TV news is no longer in charge of itself. It deserves to be shot at sunrise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bloggers are banging at the door of reality. But there are too many of them. They are unfocused. Too wild-eyed. Too unconsidered. And they fade away with time. The internet is generations away from fulfilling its promise. Bloggers have found limited success only because mass media has failed so miserably.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

I really enjoyed this interview of Mike James, done by Terry Heaton.\u00c2\u00a0 Simple, direct, and to the point.\u00c2\u00a0 Some things discussed are obvious to anyone with a common sense.\u00c2\u00a0 Others are not so.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Here are a couple of quotes to get you started. Television news (if you believe it is a form of journalism) has … Continue reading The state of mass media<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,764,1251,1253,1252],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-blogging","tag-internet","tag-interviews","tag-journalism","tag-mass-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18191,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/21\/retro-report-the-truth-now-about-the-big-stories-then\/","url_meta":{"origin":10970,"position":0},"title":"Retro Report – the truth now about the big stories then","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"May 21, 2013","format":"link","excerpt":"Retro Report - the truth now about the big stories then","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11972,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/01\/on-citizen-journalism\/","url_meta":{"origin":10970,"position":1},"title":"On citizen journalism","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 1, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Cyprus Mail has an interesting article on the rising role and side effects of citizen journalism. 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