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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There is nothing to compel a tenured professor of journalism to engage with the Internet other than as a user.
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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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Bob Woodward has gone wholly into access journalism.
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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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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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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.
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Not only is the Times not operating properly, it's unable to say to readers: here's why we're not.
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I just don't think there is any more Judy Miller credibility,
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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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Authority in an interactive world comes from communicating, not from avoiding communication. Explaining yourself is not navel-gazing. It's a part of democracy.
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That small fridge in the dining room just isn't doing the job anymore. When there are bottles stored in every room in the house, it's time to think about a better option.
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Argument is what causes them to seek out more information.
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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.