“Good journalism” is not the concern of cable news at night—that’s certainly not news. What Sherman’s piece shows, along with much else, is that cable channels are populated by prime time journalists who use journalistic tools to argue, squabble, bitch, pillory, delight, and entertain; produce something anything than good, solid, objective journalism. And they know it.
Behind the News
03:13 PM - October 4, 2010
Not the Nightly News
New York’s cable news piece shows cable’s given up on news
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (18)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
"Lean forward" instead of "lean back" of course. If that's a novel phrase or pair to you, you might want to check out this internet thing we've got going.
Also if you think that news can be objective in some meaningful way, I know a number of people who would like to chat.
Finally most news in Europe comes with a clear slant. I'm not sure that's a bad thing.
#1 Posted by John, CJR on Tue 5 Oct 2010 at 07:06 PM