What is Wrong With Media?
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The document discusses several issues with modern media including media consolidation, loss of courage and freedom as media organizations grow larger, and the misuse of power by crushing people with journalism. It also notes that television has no page two so every story seems really big, and that educating and informing the public is low on media organizations' priorities list. Several quotes criticize media self-importance and note that when there is no real news, media will create it.
What is Wrong With Media?
- 1. What’s Wrong With Media Pramit Singh Founder, Bighow.com World’s Best Tool For Online Journalism
- 2. The Monopolies With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day. - Kingman Brewster, Jr.
- 3. The Media-industrial Complex The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness. Eric Sevareid, " The Press and the People ," TV program, 1959
- 4. Misusing the power You can crush a man with journalism. - William Randolph Hearst
- 5. The Goodwill is lost Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism. - Graham Henry Greene
- 6. Media is always right A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked to people who did. These writers are called journalists, and like telephone operators, butchers, ballerinas, and people who clean up after horses, journalists can sometimes make mistakes. - Lemony Snickett
- 7. There is no pause button Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one. - Art Buchwald, 1969
- 8. There is no duty The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list. - Abbie Hoffman
- 9. The self-importance Most rock journalism is people who can not write interviewing people who can not talk. - Frank Zappa
- 10. Self – Importance: the sequel Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. - Frank Zappa
- 11. It just doesn't stop What's the difference between a 3-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In 6 weeks, the puppy will stop whining. - Mike Ditka
- 12. If there is no news, create news Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. - G.K. Chesterton
- 13. It is mostly noise There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated , it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. - Oscar Wilde