Jay Rosen
Jay Rosen
Jay Rosenis a media critic, writer, and a professor of journalism at New York University...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth5 May 1956
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The average wine cellar can hold 1,500 to 2,000 bottles of wine, is temperature-controlled and is completely insulated.
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Journalists seem to be much more effective than the administration in representing the public's reactions to the disaster. Clueless federal officials seem to know less about what is happening than the journalists do, and sometimes less than an average TV viewer. This tips the balance of power toward the press, which is why we see such aggressive questioning and on-air criticism close to jeering.
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The Times felt helpless, ... It couldn't print the news. It was very much trapped.
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I've been trying to cultivate relationships with wine retailers around the region. When their loyal customers are looking for a referral about a wine cellar builder, I'd like to be the one they suggest.
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Things I Used to Teach That I No Longer Believe
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Argument is what causes them to seek out more information.
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Bob Woodward has gone wholly into access journalism.
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Big Media does not know how to innovate, ... What capacity for product development do news organizations show? Zip. How are they on nurturing innovation? Terrible. Is there an entrepreneurial spirit in newsrooms? No. Do smart young people ever come in and overturn everything? Never. Do these firms attract designers and geeks who are gifted with technology? They don't, because they don't do anything challenging enough. They don't innovate, or pay well. So they can't compete.
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But what recourse do they have . . . complain to the publisher?,
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She subtracted from public knowledge by introducing this unknown source whose name she couldn't remember. It's almost like the gaps in the Nixon tapes.
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There is nothing to compel a tenured professor of journalism to engage with the Internet other than as a user.
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It's striking that the lessons of their own self-study after Jayson Blair seemed to evaporate.
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It's always been the case that news organizations did things that weren't fully justified...(but) in the past, it didn't really matter, because there wasn't any way to challenge decision-making.
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What The Post is doing today is a recognition that the balance of power has shifted to users who can choose the way they receive news . . . that they're not entirely in charge of how people get their news anymore.