That’s a really good question. My guess (and it is only a guess) is that the craft of journalism has not changed, but the business of journalism has.
Where the broadcast news was once a public good (as required by the FCC license), it is now a profit/loss center; print media has been mostly lost to corporate raiders, and what now passes …
That’s a really good question. My guess (and it is only a guess) is that the craft of journalism has not changed, but the business of journalism has.
Where the broadcast news was once a public good (as required by the FCC license), it is now a profit/loss center; print media has been mostly lost to corporate raiders, and what now passes for news is punditry.
I know it is a (rom-com) movie and not exactly verbatim truth, but "Broadcast News” seems more prescient than ever.
That’s a really good question. My guess (and it is only a guess) is that the craft of journalism has not changed, but the business of journalism has.
Where the broadcast news was once a public good (as required by the FCC license), it is now a profit/loss center; print media has been mostly lost to corporate raiders, and what now passes for news is punditry.
I know it is a (rom-com) movie and not exactly verbatim truth, but "Broadcast News” seems more prescient than ever.
Point well taken. Money drives what we read and listen to. Walter Cronkite would cry if he knew what has happened to the art of journalism.