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Political Blogs

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I missed this from biz school prof Kevin Dooley back in August, 2008:

[H]ow are polit­ical blogs the same or dif­fer­ent from MSM? Through Wonko­sphere, we have noticed that polit­ical blogs are con­sumed in much the same man­ner as main­stream media is, which indic­ates that read­ers treat polit­ical blogs not as sep­ar­ate from, but rather as part of, main­stream media. Wonko­sphere traffic is greatest on Monday, and tends to peak before break­fast, lunch and din­ner, i.e. when people are cruis­ing on the net to end a por­tion of their work day. Blogs act as news­pa­pers for most. Con­tinue read­ing →

Good journalism’s demand ‘problem’

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Columbia Journalism ReviewThe Columbia Journ­al­ism Review takes on a famil­iar trope — the scarcity of atten­tion — and riffs on it in rela­tion to journalism.

Attention—our most pre­cious resource—is in increas­ingly short sup­ply. To win the war for our atten­tion, news organ­iz­a­tions must make them­selves indis­pens­able by pro­du­cing journ­al­ism that helps make sense of the flood of inform­a­tion that inund­ates us all.

Atten­tion, with respect to Her­bert Simon, is not scarce. It is a constant.

It’s just man­aged in ways that read­ers of the Columbia Journ­al­ism Review may find dis­ap­point­ing. Con­tinue read­ing →