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Should news inform or entertain?
Munir Umrani, at the Blogging Journalist, picks up on the debate over news – should it inform or entertain? Let me put that question into a news genre and see if it works… Should sports news entertain and inform – or both? Results, columnists, previews, “exclusives” – match reports and analysis. The genre has it…
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AFPTV
French wire service AFP is launching a new TV service in French and English. It will have bureaux in Warsaw, Istanbul, Baghdad, Cairo, New Delhi, Bangkok, Beijing, Nairobi, Rio de Janeiro, and of course, Washington DC.
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A new book on news shockingly makes the point that it is…a commodity! And information is…marketed – let’s hope James T. Hamilton’s book goes a little bit further than that.
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Numbers…
Via J D Lasica: – Only 27% of the public said they were satisfied with the news but 76% of people inside it are satisfied. – Only 12% of the public read newspapers but 26% of the industry reads them. – 32% of the public get their news from TV but only 5% of the…