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My new post: "This is for everyone who follows me on social media, or who has read my press criticism. All my former students. Fans of my blog, PressThink. Anyone who owns my book. Anyone who's heard me speak. It's a personal statement, from me to them..." boingboing.net/2018/11/14/jay…
"I have never asked you for anything. Except maybe to read this, or share that. I don't push products, or join campaigns. But today, after 32 years as an observer and critic of the press, I am breaking with that policy. Breaking it in half." boingboing.net/2018/11/14/jay…
"If you have ever wondered what I would recommend to public-spirited people who want a better press, this is it." Become a founding member: thecorrespondent.com Read the rest of my letter to followers of my work and readers of my blog: boingboing.net/2018/11/14/jay…
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Over the last few days, it's become clearer and clearer to me that, without intervention, coverage of the 2020 campaign is likely to be a disaster for everyone except Trump and his core voters, who want to watch it all burn anyway. In this thread I describe the danger I see. 1/
By "disaster for everyone," I mean all candidates opposing Trump, journalists themselves, voters from all sides (except those who have exited from the news system by merging with his hate campaign against the news media) and anyone who seeks the repair of American democracy. 2/
Start with the simple fact of inertia. In ruins after the debacle of 2016, the horse race model and "game" schema that have instructed campaign journalism for at least 40 years are up and running again. It appears the bosses have no better ideas, and no will to develop them. 3/
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I asked @DavidMDrucker where he got his statement in Vanity Fair that "Trump brings a certain gravitas" to the presidency, since I have never heard anyone in either party observe that, and all the evidence contradicts it. vanityfair.com/news/2018/12/w… He answered me. Next slide please.
This is his answer. Apparently anonymous sources in the party told him that, and he worded the conclusion so it reads as a natural fact— not "insiders in the party say..." but just something everyone knows. Gravitas.
Still, the entertainment value in this explanation should be credited. "Listen, you didn't get this from me, okay? But Trump brings a certain gravitas to the presidency..." Anonymous sources say their guy is awesome.
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I don't know how our journalists came to see "storytelling" as the heart of what they do, and "storyteller" as a self-description. I can think of 4-5 elements of journalism more central than "story." Truthtelling, grounding public conversation in fact, verification... listening.
Read @ub14 on how bizarre the centrality of "story" can seem. "After I left law for journalism, I learned that journalists do, in fact, call the people in their stories 'characters.' I remember how astonished I was when I learned that..." Good piece. niemanlab.org/2018/12/the-st…
Or, on the same point — how did journalists come to see themselves a society's storytellers and what are the costs of this misfit self-conception? — read @jeffjarvis on the Der Spiegel scandal, which is all about this. The seduction of storytelling: medium.com/whither-news/t…
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Media bias is one of those issues that drives people crazy. You see it with own eyes every day, while those guilty of it deny it happens. Like walking in on your spouse in the arms of another and they tell you nothing's going on, don't be hysterical.
This is not new to the Trump era, but with the advancement of social media, is more noticeable than ever. Well-known journalists use their Twitter accounts as flame-throwers, never bothering to make sure what they post is remotely accurate. Spoiler alert: they don't care.
Getting exposure, viral tweets, name recognition, and advancing the progressive ball is all that matters. When something they tweet turns out to be wrong, they aren't embarrassed. They don't face backlash from their peers or employers. If they got clicks, all is well.
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