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Old August 18th 09, 05:56 AM posted to rec.photo.digital.slr-systems,rec.photo.equipment.35mm
Paul Furman
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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.

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Old August 18th 09, 11:29 AM posted to rec.photo.digital.slr-systems,rec.photo.equipment.35mm
J. Clarke
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Default 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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