Comments on: More News Outlets, Less News http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/more_news_outlets_less_news/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:16:53 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Herb http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/more_news_outlets_less_news/comment-page-1/#comment-76346 Herb Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:51:10 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2006/03/more_news_outlets_less_news/#comment-76346 What this means is that with more news outlets, the less news we will get by carefully selecting the news that suite their political agenda rather than providing the news that is fair and balanced. In other words, selective censorship. What this means is that with more news outlets, the less news we will get by carefully selecting the news that suite their political agenda rather than providing the news that is fair and balanced.

In other words, selective censorship.

]]> By: Richard Gardner http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/more_news_outlets_less_news/comment-page-1/#comment-76300 Richard Gardner Tue, 14 Mar 2006 03:35:40 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2006/03/more_news_outlets_less_news/#comment-76300 I've noticed that local news is sort-of following "the global paradox." The more people get interconnected, the more they care about things that are familiar to them - so during Katrina, for example, a great number of TV stations (and newspapers) sent their own reporters to cover the event rather than depend on the network reporting, or the reporting of the event-area reporters, who actually might have some background. This often leads to a "media circus" where major resources have to be diverted to the hordes of reporters that descend like a plague of locusts. Sometime I can understand local coverage of a remote event, such as embeds in Iraq from towns near major military bases, with the media reporting on soldiers from their area - but note the local aspect here. This may appear in the aggregate to be reporting the same Iraq war, but it really is local reporting, taken abroad. But all these efforts take the reporters away from reporting on new stories in their areas. I've noticed that local news is sort-of following "the global paradox." The more people get interconnected, the more they care about things that are familiar to them - so during Katrina, for example, a great number of TV stations (and newspapers) sent their own reporters to cover the event rather than depend on the network reporting, or the reporting of the event-area reporters, who actually might have some background. This often leads to a "media circus" where major resources have to be diverted to the hordes of reporters that descend like a plague of locusts.

Sometime I can understand local coverage of a remote event, such as embeds in Iraq from towns near major military bases, with the media reporting on soldiers from their area - but note the local aspect here. This may appear in the aggregate to be reporting the same Iraq war, but it really is local reporting, taken abroad.

But all these efforts take the reporters away from reporting on new stories in their areas.

]]> By: RA http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/more_news_outlets_less_news/comment-page-1/#comment-76275 RA Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:43:08 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2006/03/more_news_outlets_less_news/#comment-76275 I don't believe this story. The MSM used to choose Democratic talking points and like a herd of cattle running for water, they would propagandise America, shutting out the other side of the story. There are more stories out there today because the "drive by media" can't censor the discussion any longer. I don't believe this story. The MSM used to choose Democratic talking points and like a herd of cattle running for water, they would propagandise America, shutting out the other side of the story.

There are more stories out there today because the "drive by media" can't censor the discussion any longer.

]]> By: The Glittering Eye » Blog Archive » Six major trends in journalism http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/more_news_outlets_less_news/comment-page-1/#comment-76231 The Glittering Eye » Blog Archive » Six major trends in journalism Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:20:04 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2006/03/more_news_outlets_less_news/#comment-76231 [...] Columbia University’s Project for Excellence in Journalism has its State of the News Media Report for 2006 (hat tip: James Joyner) and has detected six major trends: [...] [...] Columbia University’s Project for Excellence in Journalism has its State of the News Media Report for 2006 (hat tip: James Joyner) and has detected six major trends: [...]

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