Comments on: What is “the news”? Good question http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/04/17/what-is-the-news-good-question/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:52:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: max191 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/04/17/what-is-the-news-good-question/comment-page-1/#comment-360547 max191 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:35:21 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=2350#comment-360547 Thanks for writing this blog and sharing it with the world. I would like to know how to go for reading your rss blog. Please let me know if possible.<br>regards<br><a rel="dofollow" href="http://www.charcoalgrillsite.com" rel="nofollow">charcoal grill</a> Thanks for writing this blog and sharing it with the world. I would like to know how to go for reading your rss blog. Please let me know if possible.
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]]> By: mathewi http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/04/17/what-is-the-news-good-question/comment-page-1/#comment-341014 mathewi Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:29:04 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=2350#comment-341014 fair enough, Nate. fair enough, Nate.

]]> By: Nate Westheimer http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/04/17/what-is-the-news-good-question/comment-page-1/#comment-341013 Nate Westheimer Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:43:04 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=2350#comment-341013 Matthew, I'm quite sympathetic to the pressures of modern journalism. But there's a difference between those who try to get it right and those who try to get it first. Those who get it right will win the long-run... I can prove it (and will in an up coming blog post). Anyway, I appreciate your thoughts on the matter -- and again, I'm sympathetic to these pressures, but I don't find any room for excuses for plain-old bad reporting, such as Riley's, in that sympathy. Matthew, I'm quite sympathetic to the pressures of modern journalism. But there's a difference between those who try to get it right and those who try to get it first. Those who get it right will win the long-run… I can prove it (and will in an up coming blog post). Anyway, I appreciate your thoughts on the matter — and again, I'm sympathetic to these pressures, but I don't find any room for excuses for plain-old bad reporting, such as Riley's, in that sympathy.

]]> By: Tim Burden http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/04/17/what-is-the-news-good-question/comment-page-1/#comment-341012 Tim Burden Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:43:47 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=2350#comment-341012 I agree. This presents an opportunity for MSM. It is probably more important than ever for a news organization to maintain its credibility and reliability. How else will readers sort through the morass of comment and opinion that forms around a story? At some point in the "process", someone with an authoritative voice has to summarize, distill and contextualize the event.<br><br>Even so, <a href="http://burden.ca/blog/2008/04/05/critical-website-reviews-part-5-summary">I give poor marks</a> to any news site that doesn't allow readers to comment on stories. Comments help other readers get a sense of what people are thinking about an issue, and spark thought and debate about what has happened. But I also <a href="http://burden.ca/blog/2008/03/27/a-million-sources-one-story-and-msms-are-the-worst">question the motives</a> of any outlet that gives priority to speed and "me too" and doesn't check the facts. I agree. This presents an opportunity for MSM. It is probably more important than ever for a news organization to maintain its credibility and reliability. How else will readers sort through the morass of comment and opinion that forms around a story? At some point in the “process”, someone with an authoritative voice has to summarize, distill and contextualize the event.

Even so, I give poor marks to any news site that doesn't allow readers to comment on stories. Comments help other readers get a sense of what people are thinking about an issue, and spark thought and debate about what has happened. But I also question the motives of any outlet that gives priority to speed and “me too” and doesn't check the facts.

]]> By: mathewi http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/04/17/what-is-the-news-good-question/comment-page-1/#comment-341011 mathewi Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:31:02 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=2350#comment-341011 I'm not saying that there's no value in objectivity (or at the very<br>least, fairness), or that there isn't still a place for traditional<br>media with "old-fashioned" standards -- if anything, I share your<br>feeling that these things may become more valuable rather than less.<br>But I'm not sure the traditional media are the only ones that are<br>capable of supplying those things -- I guess maybe that's part of my<br>point. Obviously accuracy and reliability and trust still matter, and<br>perhaps matter even more now. I'm not saying that there's no value in objectivity (or at the very
least, fairness), or that there isn't still a place for traditional
media with “old-fashioned” standards — if anything, I share your
feeling that these things may become more valuable rather than less.
But I'm not sure the traditional media are the only ones that are
capable of supplying those things — I guess maybe that's part of my
point. Obviously accuracy and reliability and trust still matter, and
perhaps matter even more now.

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