Comments on: The origins of ‘Churnalism’ http://adrianmonck.com/2008/05/the-origins-of-churnalism/ a blog about news Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:03:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Adrian Monck http://adrianmonck.com/2008/05/the-origins-of-churnalism/comment-page-1/#comment-2041 Adrian Monck Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:39:07 +0000 http://adrianmonck.com/?p=948#comment-2041 Sorry Mike - you'll find it in Nexis I guess, but it's not available online. Sorry Mike — you’ll find it in Nexis I guess, but it’s not available online.

]]> By: mike buonaiuto http://adrianmonck.com/2008/05/the-origins-of-churnalism/comment-page-1/#comment-2040 mike buonaiuto Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:19:30 +0000 http://adrianmonck.com/?p=948#comment-2040 hi - im doing research for my degree on churnalism - where did you find this article from the Boston Globe? It would be great if you could post the original link. Thanks. Mike hi — im doing research for my degree on churnalism — where did you find this article from the Boston Globe? It would be great if you could post the original link. Thanks. Mike

]]> By: Adrian Monck http://adrianmonck.com/2008/05/the-origins-of-churnalism/comment-page-1/#comment-704 Adrian Monck Wed, 21 May 2008 07:16:15 +0000 http://adrianmonck.com/?p=948#comment-704 I seem to remember there being some psychological research that puts a golden age permanently 20 years behind where we are currently. Nick's golden age ended in 1986 which is 22, but he started writing in 2005/6! I seem to remember there being some psychological research that puts a golden age permanently 20 years behind where we are currently.

Nick’s golden age ended in 1986 which is 22, but he started writing in 2005/6!

]]> By: Tim Holmes http://adrianmonck.com/2008/05/the-origins-of-churnalism/comment-page-1/#comment-703 Tim Holmes Tue, 20 May 2008 21:23:28 +0000 http://adrianmonck.com/?p=948#comment-703 We are always in decline from a Golden Age, whatever the subject. Wordsworth's own Lyrical Ballads were reviled on publication, just as when I took over my office 11 years ago one of the first documents I found (and it was pretty old even then) was an NCTJ report bemoaning the inability of student journalists to spell. Or write news. We are always in decline from a Golden Age, whatever the subject. Wordsworth’s own Lyrical Ballads were reviled on publication, just as when I took over my office 11 years ago one of the first documents I found (and it was pretty old even then) was an NCTJ report bemoaning the inability of student journalists to spell. Or write news.

]]> By: Adrian Monck http://adrianmonck.com/2008/05/the-origins-of-churnalism/comment-page-1/#comment-700 Adrian Monck Mon, 19 May 2008 22:18:41 +0000 http://adrianmonck.com/?p=948#comment-700 He wouldn't have like Facebook, but perhaps GPS would have helped get him from Westminster Bridge to Tintern Abbey! He wouldn’t have like Facebook, but perhaps GPS would have helped get him from Westminster Bridge to Tintern Abbey!

]]> By: Charlie Beckett http://adrianmonck.com/2008/05/the-origins-of-churnalism/comment-page-1/#comment-699 Charlie Beckett Mon, 19 May 2008 13:43:21 +0000 http://adrianmonck.com/?p=948#comment-699 It's not the actual word 'churnalism' but a certain William Wordsworth expressed similar horror about the downward slide of journalism in this 1846 poem called "Illustrated Books and Newspapers": DISCOURSE was deemed Man’s noblest attribute, And written words the glory of his hand; Then followed Printing with enlarged command For thought – dominion vast and absolute For spreading truth, and making love expand. Now prose and verse sunk into disrepute Must lacquey a dumb Art that best can suit The taste of this once-intellectual Land. A backward movement surely have we here, From manhood – back to childhood; for the age – Back towards caverned life’s first rude career. Avaunt this vile abuse of pictured page! Must eyes be all in all, the tongue and ear Nothing? Heaven keep us from a lower stage! It’s not the actual word ‘churnalism’ but a certain William Wordsworth expressed similar horror about the downward slide of journalism in this 1846 poem called “Illustrated Books and Newspapers”:

DISCOURSE was deemed Man’s noblest attribute,
And written words the glory of his hand;
Then followed Printing with enlarged command
For thought – dominion vast and absolute
For spreading truth, and making love expand.
Now prose and verse sunk into disrepute
Must lacquey a dumb Art that best can suit
The taste of this once-intellectual Land.
A backward movement surely have we here,
From manhood – back to childhood; for the age –
Back towards caverned life’s first rude career.
Avaunt this vile abuse of pictured page!
Must eyes be all in all, the tongue and ear
Nothing? Heaven keep us from a lower stage!

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