{"id":616,"date":"2007-09-26T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=616"},"modified":"2007-09-26T01:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T07:01:00","slug":"two-takes-on-news-and-one-on-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/09\/two-takes-on-news-and-one-on-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Two takes on news, and one on journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

T<\/span>hree quotes to chew on, one from soon-to-be Murdoch<\/span> biographer Michael Wolff<\/a>: <\/p>\n

You can\u2019t put this too starkly: the news as a pastime, as a form of media, is vaudeville. The news business \u2014 our crowd of overexcited people narrating events as they happen \u2014 is going out of business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This from a guy called Jason Steen<\/a>, who gets in because he makes a good point and my RSS reader caught him:<\/p>\n

There is no clash between quality journalism and profit-based business.<\/p>\n

News organizations in America have always been profit-based businesses, and their ability to properly respond to change and innovate will allow them to continue delivering quality journalism.<\/p>\n

The scarier question you failed to address, however, is \u201cwhat if the reason for the decline in quality journalism isn\u2019t advertising money and subscribers, but rather, a lack of demand?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(BTW, I\u2019m with Steen on that last point. For years editors have been selling the sports pages but telling themselves people bought the leader columns. What we are experiencing is – lovely word – unbundling<\/span>.)<\/p>\n

So, ushering in a new year full of hopeful journalism students, do I feel guilty taking their cash? No, journalism removed any semblance of conscience years ago<\/span> because as Mark Potts<\/a> says: <\/p>\n

The skills that you use every day to commit journalism have uses you can barely imagine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Making a career in journalism is risky but exciting, and if you don\u2019t want to take a chance in life, book a place at actuarial college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three quotes to chew on, one from soon-to-be Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff: You can\u2019t put this too starkly: the news as a pastime, as a form of media, is vaudeville. The news business \u2014 our crowd of overexcited people narrating events as they happen \u2014 is going out of business. This from a guy called […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-journalists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","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=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}