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...primary television platform of American political discourse." The medium's audience grew 38% last year alone, with profits rising by a third (though such gains were described as "ephemeral" in that most evaporated after Nov. 4). But this 24/7 model did have one lasting effect: according to the report, it fostered an atmosphere of accelerated journalist judgment, daily campaign briefings, partisan spin doctors, "deliberately coarse and provocative" content and political "tweeting." Bit by bit, the authors write, "the line between unfiltered personal thought and public discourse is evaporating." The organization further condemned the political press for being "more reactive...
...journalists to trust. And already, there are growing doubts about "whether the generation in charge has the vision and the boldness to reinvent the industry ... [And] it is unclear, say some, who the innovative leaders are, and a good many well-known figures have left the business." A special report on "citizen journalists" found that such websites are "far from compensating for the losses in coverage in traditional newsrooms." (Read this Washington Post op-ed by David Simon, creator of HBO's The Wire, for an even more damning assessment of "citizen-journalists...
...turmoil in the boardroom and the newsroom: One of the more chilling numbers in this report is 20% - as in the percentage of journalists who worked in newspapers in 2001 who have since left the field because their jobs have been eliminated. In 2008, "America's newspapers got smaller in just about every way." Half of the country's states no longer have a newspaper that covers Congress. "Yet nowhere," the report continues, "was the turmoil more acute than in news magazines." (This, ahem, includes Time...
...report is brutally honest and surprisingly up-to-date, citing the Rush Limbaugh controversy and the Jim Cramer vs. Jon Stewart kerfuffle as evidence of the personality-driven nature of cable news and the viral powerhouse that is YouTube. And like so many panicked reports, this bleak prognosis on the health of American journalism grimly alludes to the 1930s as a way to really emphasize the dire straits we're in: "If estimates by Advertising Age prove accurate, total spending on advertising fell for the second consecutive year. Another decline is predicted for 2009. That would mark the first consecutive...
Harvard’s multi-billion-dollar house renovations progressed one step further on Thursday, when the preliminary findings of the Committee on House Life report were presented. The report’s conclusions will be familiar to anyone frustrated by missing the 7:15 dinner deadline or losing a fight over a common room, as it outlines significant changes that should be made in the new houses. Though we await the specific details of the final report, these initial findings address important student concerns and offer encouraging signs of progress...