{"id":311,"date":"2007-02-25T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=311"},"modified":"2007-02-25T10:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-25T16:02:00","slug":"demablogs-3-academic-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/02\/demablogs-3-academic-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Demablogs 3 &#8211; academic papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">W<\/span>here do you think the quotes below come from? Some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/2006\/08\/institutional_failure_at_reute.html\" target=\"_blank\">chippy demablogger<\/a>, with a grudge against mainstream media? Have a read, as it criticizes: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the inequities and limitations of the international journalism provided by \u201ctraditional media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[news agencies] manufacture a bland and homogeneous, but still ideologically distinctive, view of the world&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[news providers] are demonstrably wedded to journalism as tied to established power and promotional culture as it can be.<\/p>\n<p>While the online news industry continues to pretend for the moment that it brings readers a diversity of reporting on world news, it is a pretence which cannot last.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;new media will continue to present to most users the dangerous illusion of multiple perspectives&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually, it&#8217;s not some agency-hating rant from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michellemalkin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Malkin<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlegreenfootballs.com\/weblog\/weblog.php\" target=\"_blank\">Little Green Footballs<\/a> from an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/url?sa=t&#038;ct=res&amp;cd=1&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fics.leeds.ac.uk%2Fpapers%2Fcicr%2Fexhibits%2F42%2Fcicrpaterson.pdf&amp;ei=Mb_hRamFOaP6QdTZgdQH&#038;usg=__osmnXxj_PX56l9MlA1rSjvfhq5s=&amp;sig2=FvCXyrx_jVSUqpfpGozBtw\">academic paper<\/a> by <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Chris Paterson<\/span> that takes a look at the availability of news agency material online. Paterson notes what anyone who&#8217;s ever hit a news search knows &#8211; <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">AP<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Reuters<\/span> material is everywhere. Where are we heading with all this?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The internet has fully transitioned into what we have traditionally regarded as \u201cold media:\u201d it is now, <u>for most users<\/u>, a mass medium providing mostly illusory interactivity and mostly illusory diversity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Most users? Yes <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">proles<\/span>, that&#8217;s you. Thank goodness some enlightened souls can see through the illusion!<\/p>\n<p>[<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">HT<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/sambrook.typepad.com\/sacredfacts\/2007\/02\/so_where_does_t.html\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Sambrook<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201ctraditional media.\u201d [news agencies] manufacture a bland and homogeneous, but still ideologically distinctive, view of the world&#8230; [news providers] are demonstrably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,50],"tags":[268,250],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-journalists","tag-associated-press","tag-reuters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}