Recent and near-recent events, including a recent preposterous interview with a publisher, put me in mind of the article Last Call: The End of the Printed Newspaper, BY Clary Shirky, with this excerpt about the games played on staffers as well as readers: Journalists have been infantilized throughout the last decade, kept in a state of relative ignorance about the firms that employ them.... This cluelessness is not by accident; the people who understand the state of the business often hide that knowledge from the workers. My friend Jay Rosen writes about the media’s production of innocence — when covering a contentious issue, they must signal to the readers We have no idea who’s right. Among the small pool of journalists reporting on their own industry, there is a related task, the production of ignorance. When the press writes about the current dislocations, they must insist that no one knows what will happen. This pattern shows up whenever the media covers itself. When the Tribune Company recently got rid of their newspapers, the New York Times ran the story under a headline The Tribune Company’s publishing unit is being spun off, as the future of print remains unclear. The future of print remains what?
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 14:30:39 +0000
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