I wrote this article back in October 2005, The Misplaced Journalistic Priesthood, and I thought about it after writing The Mainstream Media is Scared Senseless:
“Reporters, journalists, and anchors are all employees of profit-motivated organizations that have investors, sponsors and advertisers. Reporters are ambitious, competitive, and can be fired. Sounds like an unholy priesthood to me.”
No Comments » Posted on August 17th, 2007 by Abraham Harrison
The fine line between people getting out there and exploring the world and just settling for experiencing it on the internet is getting pretty thin. It’s not that I am knocking the internet for providing us with this opportunity (I am very grateful to be able to watch someone surf a 60 foot wave or base jump off a building at the click of a button), but I do feel that as a human race we are loosing our need to “get out” and explore. As a 22 year old recent graduate I can say that a lot of my friends are falling victim to this trend. It is almost as if visiting a site that can tell you all about Mt. Washington is becoming equivalent to climbing it yourself. I find myself frequently in bar conversations with people who claim to know exactly what a certain culture is all about when they have never experienced it.
It makes me wonder if technology will completed consume the human urge for adventure…………
1 Comment » Posted on August 17th, 2007 by Kevin Donlan
I don’t know who wrote this painfully-defensive editorial on the LA Times, but he doth protest loudly and irrationally that he unintentionally put another nail in the MSM coffin and put the mainstream media doomsday clock at five-minutes to midnight. Very sad; no, rather pathetic… Via USC Annenberg School for Communication’s Online Journalism Review
“The essence of good journalism is asking the right questions. Google, however, won’t ask anything of those who submit comments. According to the company’s announcement, its only interest is that the submissions are authentic, not that they’re relevant or even truthful. As a result, the comments section is likely to be larded with spin, hype and obfuscation. A seemingly heartfelt comment may carry the CEO’s name, but the words will probably have been typed by corporate flacks.”
9 Comments » Posted on August 17th, 2007 by Abraham Harrison
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No Comments » Posted on August 17th, 2007 by Abraham Harrison
More and more people are spending more and more time online to read, view, or listen to content, according to the Online Publishers Assocition. In fact, in just four years, there’s been an ease of 37% in the share of time we spend online viewing content. And in just one year, share of time for of content increased from 39.0% to 49.6%. And I’d bet that that increase is also an increase of real time…meaning it is not taking away from search or ecommerce or communication.
No Comments » Posted on August 17th, 2007 by Jonathan Trenn
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