Tom Rosenstiel
Tom Rosenstiel
Tom Rosenstiel is an American author, journalist, press critic and executive director of the American Press Institute. He is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Rosenstiel was founder and for 16 years director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a research organization that studies the news media and is part of the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C...
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Power is shifting from the journalist setting the agenda, to the consumer becoming their own editor - deciding what their media diet will be. We're in the fast food news culture, where you've got a huge buffet. (And) we do almost nothing in the media world to teach people what they need to know to be an intelligent consumer of news.
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Maybe part of their brilliance is they're not as guilt-ridden about it.
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Some Americans will be curious, but I suspect most will be wary. Some will be infuriated.
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What distinguishes Nightline - the heart of its appeal - is its intelligence, seriousness of purpose, integrity and its depth.
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While the piece hardly clarifies everything, the Times should be praised for its candor.
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It's not up to a news organization to let its source substantiate the news for them. The news organization has to be skeptical of the information it receives, verify it independently, then run it by the subjects of the story for comment.
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It's not unheard of to wait for a news peg. It's not unusual to discover the existence of something and not know the context of it until later.
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It's the illusion of more information, but it's actually a lot of repetition.
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Then, when she embroils you in a legal tangle over the matter, instead of monitoring the situation as closely as possible, you put the discretion nearly entirely in her hands. You do not know what's in her notes. And when you believe you are backing her because she is defending a principle, she then brings in a second attorney. To people outside journalism all this looks just weird,
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each one synthesizing and adding to what others are learning. If only one or two news organizations do it, it won't have the same effect.
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It varies by market, but you can generalize and say this: 2005 was a very difficult year for newspapers. If you don't see this cutback, you do see others.
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(It's) indicative of larger trends that are going on in journalism, in which citizens are becoming their own editors, and even their own producers, of news. It's much easier to get information from distant places now than it was a generation ago.
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The onus is increasingly on the news consumer to seek out what they should be interested in, rather than being passive and saying 'I'll watch CNN and this will tell me what I need to know'.
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There are elements to the story that, if handled well, can help improve the way the public perceives the press. The other thing is that the press is doing a bunch of things that are new. They are reading e-mails, saying, 'I am looking for my nephew ... so-and-so, if you can hear me, please call.' That's community journalism on a national scale and I think that will go a long way to demonstrate that the press is doing more than just thrill seeking.