There's a magazine called Columbia Journalism Review (I get its email updates, which are free) that covers a lot of this sort of stuff, and in fact I'm surprised it hasn't come down heavily on the mainstream media for this particularly appalling instance of disparity between real news and crap.
Meanwhile we have the new owner of the LA Times, which until recently was a pretty good newspaper, telling his hard news reporters, his DC bureau and the like that really they're just burdens on the overheads bill: what his readers really want are lots of fluff articles about the entertainment industry, which he can get Real Cheap.
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Date: 2008-04-06 07:39 pm (UTC)There's a magazine called Columbia Journalism Review (I get its email updates, which are free) that covers a lot of this sort of stuff, and in fact I'm surprised it hasn't come down heavily on the mainstream media for this particularly appalling instance of disparity between real news and crap.
Meanwhile we have the new owner of the LA Times, which until recently was a pretty good newspaper, telling his hard news reporters, his DC bureau and the like that really they're just burdens on the overheads bill: what his readers really want are lots of fluff articles about the entertainment industry, which he can get Real Cheap.