On 30/06/2004 11:35, Michael Tiemann wrote:
As a person who has spent 10+ years talking with the press and seeing
how the press reports, the amount of misinformation is staggering. For
me what is most frustrating is how the press will take the most
sensational things that are said, ignoring the larger context of what is
being communicated. This obsession with soundbites is to understanding
what a porno movie is to human emotions, desires, and dreams. Worse,
every other reporter thinks that this is good, not bad journalism, and
the result is that there is no standard of quality, only mediocrity.
M
As someone who has spent just one year helping to put together a
quarterly local newspaper, for free distribution by my church
(www.baddowlife.org.uk - nothing to do with Unicode!), I am frustrated
that when we have tried to do some in depth analysis of significant
local issues we get complaints that our articles are too long. If the
public will only read or listen to soundbites, what chance is there for
quality journalism?
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Peter Kirk
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