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The glory that was Rome
Today at the Reuters Institute a fascinating collision of Italian and Anglo-Saxon journalism. (I can’t resist the Anglo-Saxon bit, it appeals to the medieval historian in me – the Venerable Bede would be proud.) The big theme was trust, and the Anglo-Italian contrast, but what came through for me were the personalities in Italian journalism:…
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Trust and the media
Trust, as an issue for the media, never seems to be far from the news itself. Here’s Reuters‘ exec Geert Linnebank: We will always need a place for a news organization whose watchword is trust. Trust will be the differentiator in the new media dynamic. Your independence and impartiality will mark you out. According to…
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Demablogs 3 – academic papers
Where do you think the quotes below come from? Some chippy demablogger, with a grudge against mainstream media? Have a read, as it criticizes: the inequities and limitations of the international journalism provided by “traditional media.” [news agencies] manufacture a bland and homogeneous, but still ideologically distinctive, view of the world… [news providers] are demonstrably…
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Anna Nicole Smith
REUTERS “The occasion gave free rein to the pseudonymous savagery which passes for informed commentary on the Web. Such cruelty contrasted with the tone of respectful shock used in blanket coverage of her death on cable television.”The coverage of Anna Nicole Smith‘s untimely death has some (e.g. Reuters‘ Eric Auchard) snorting. Hard-hearted old swine that…