The cutting of Time, People and Fact: Newspaper vs. The Blog
No Comments »How old media can survive in a new world - great WSJ article here
Since everything has become web based, media has become incredibly competitive both time and content wise.
Quality of this content seems to be on the decline as a result- as long as you get it first, it doesnt need to be right. There doesnt appear to be as much critical thought, analysis or fact in articles now, particularly in newspapers, both hard copy and online.Â
A factor behind this has to be the major epidemic in all media channels of job culling, this certainly cannot be helping the downfall of journalistic quality and accuracy. See headline here “TVNZ confirms number of job losses” 140 -160!!
“Everyone is wondering how they’re going to produce a quality service and a quality broadcast in doing that.”
With the less time to “go live” and less people to check fact, add background, fill gaps and add opinion people are alot less informed and a lot more misinformed. Its actually a very scary truth. Also, to a certain extent there are different agendas behind media channels and this is why people have and will increasingly turn to blogs for fact and opinion. Verbatim is not a good read.
People blog on things they are passionate about, enjoy researching and especially, enjoy sharing information about to the masses. This medium is in my opinion a lot more reliable than traditional media. From WSJ article above “Mr. Swinand says papers shouldn’t just use their online sites to post the same stories readers can see in print. Some reporters should be allowed to craft blogs about their topic of expertise. Readers should be able to add comments and reaction to a story in an online community.”
Blog is only newspapers’ critical pal,” he wrote in the title of his piece.
“I don’t think blog can replace the functions of newspapers. At the most, it is is only a social platform — — enables people to converse over the internet, build a mutually trusted relationship and express their views without worries. This is like chatting with one’s friends in a pub. But blog is only pub-like small circle and not a media of mass communications, so how could it threatened the survival of newspapers? Blog is only newspapers’ critics and not an enemy.
I have once imagined: if today it’s only a blog world, and newspapers haven’t been invented yet, then as a entrepreneur, what do you think I would do? I will start a newspaper. Even if the internet brings in endless flow of information, people still need an editor to help them filter and digest information, to provide them with quality and convenience. That’s the function of a newspaper. Of course, I run a newspaper, I am certainly in saying that. That’s why everyone should take it with a pinch of salt.”
-”Hong Kong Media Tycoon” Jimmy Lai Chee-ying
“Quality and convenience?” Newspapers in current state in NZ?Disclaimer: We take no responsibility for factual basis of this article due to time and people constraints.
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