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The transformation of photojournalism
Bowser wrote:
Alan Browne wrote http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/bu...l?ref=business Newspapers and magazines are cutting back sharply on picture budgets or going out of business altogether, and television stations have cut back on news coverage in favor of less-costly fare. Damn.... PJ is the one discipline where timeliness trumps quality, and cell phone pix can be good enough for TV. And that's a shame. Word-journalism is screwed too. It's a shame, dedicated reporters used to spend a year or more researching special-report/investigative articles (on salary), now a blogger covers that for free. OTOH, it makes room for the voices of people who know the topic from a lifetime of experience (or not). It's still a shame to lose that tradition of fine dedicated reporter's work. Anyways the change is done and over for the most part - blame the web g. -- Paul Furman www.edgehill.net www.baynatives.com all google groups messages filtered due to spam |
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The transformation of photojournalism
Paul Furman wrote:
Bowser wrote: Alan Browne wrote http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/bu...l?ref=business Newspapers and magazines are cutting back sharply on picture budgets or going out of business altogether, and television stations have cut back on news coverage in favor of less-costly fare. Damn.... PJ is the one discipline where timeliness trumps quality, and cell phone pix can be good enough for TV. And that's a shame. Word-journalism is screwed too. It's a shame, dedicated reporters used to spend a year or more researching special-report/investigative articles (on salary), now a blogger covers that for free. OTOH, it makes room for the voices of people who know the topic from a lifetime of experience (or not). It's still a shame to lose that tradition of fine dedicated reporter's work. Anyways the change is done and over for the most part - blame the web g. I blame journalism, both the profession and the professors. The thing that newspapers and magazines provide that the Web doesn't is the editorial function--a report in a newspaper or news magazine has been seen by more than one pair of eyes and in principle the reporter has been required to convince his editor of the truth and value of what he is writing. The trouble is that most newspapers and news services aren't holding their reporters to any higher standard than bloggers--we're seeing time and time again respected news organizations going with stories that they just made up or for which they forged the evidence, the only time anything gets done about such stories is when they get caught, and when they do get caught the person responsible, while he may get fired from one news service, usually ends up working for another instead of becoming unemployable in the news business. In addition to the falsification, I see far too many stories that don't pass the giggle test--one that especially sticks in my mind was one that AP ran a while back in which the big news was that someone had built a ship that was so efficient that it could cross the Atlantic Ocean on a single tank of fuel. This was news in 1819 but the story was run in the 21st century and had a photo of this weird looking vessel--I'm sure that there was _something_ interesting about it but whatever it was the reporter totally missed and I can't figure out why the editor was not aware that ships had been crossing the Atlantic on a single tank of fuel for nearly two centuries--did he not see "Titanic"? I fear that it's too late and the "profession" of journalism has cut its own throat. |
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