{"id":611,"date":"2007-09-24T08:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=611"},"modified":"2007-09-24T08:53:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T14:53:00","slug":"journalisms-greatest-quality-availability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/09\/journalisms-greatest-quality-availability\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalism&#8217;s greatest quality &#8211; availability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">W<\/span>hat do people want from the news? The folks at every CEO\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mckinseyquarterly.com\/article_page.aspx?ar=2037&amp;l2=17&amp;l3=65\" target=\"_blank\">favourite consultancy<\/a> have some of the answers: <span id=\"fullpost\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When asked to explain which sources of news were most useful, respondents expressed a preference for those offering convenience, comprehensiveness, or timeliness rather than quality. Specifically, they were far more likely to consider a news source useful because it \u201cis the easiest way to get news,\u201d \u201ccovers the most topics,\u201d or makes it \u201ceasy to get news whenever I want it\u201d than because it has the most accurate content or the deepest analysis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The figures are below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/giussani.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/09\/14\/mckinseymedia07.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/giussani.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/09\/14\/mckinseymedia07.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>[HT: <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lunchoverip.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">LunchoverIP<\/a> via <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/virtualeconomics.typepad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seamus McC<\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do people want from the news? The folks at every CEO\u2019s favourite consultancy have some of the answers: When asked to explain which sources of news were most useful, respondents expressed a preference for those offering convenience, comprehensiveness, or timeliness rather than quality. Specifically, they were far more likely to consider a news source [&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":[7,50,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-journalists","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","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=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}