Via xkcd of course. Tooltip says:
News networks giving a greater voice to viewers because the social web is so popular are like a chef on the Titanic who, seeing the looming iceberg and fleeing customers, figures ice is the future and starts making snow cones.
Excellent choice for a cartoon, although http://xkcd.com/26/ is still my favorite.
ReplyDeleteThe media's switch from News to Infotainment helped create this situation. I doubt that it can be overcome unless real "News" and Journalism find a way to express themselves once more.
Should we call it "Cargo Cult Journalism"? Something with the trappings of investigative reporting -- a bloke holding a mic, a seriously serious format, and a report written in Old High Newspaperese -- but without the substance that makes good journalism.
ReplyDeleteI think good journalism, like good science, is ultimately based on the scientific method. A good reporter will ask questions which can falsify things, rather than questions which only serve to confuse everyone.
-- frank