Friday, February 11, 2005
A Poynter Institute Reader Gets it
Here's a frustrated comment on the Poynter Institute message board from Logan Anderson, a weekend/business news editor from Lynchburg, VA
I agree wholeheartedly.
Romenesko and the Poynter Institute failed utterly in its mission to the journalism community, by all but ignoring the story.
Meanwhile, now that Eason has resigned and there is simply no way to sweep the controversy under the rug, outlets like the New York Times are still failing to note the precedents for Easons remarks, presaged in Portugal and the Guardian.
And no, the New York Times doesn't bother mentioning WHICH bloggers kept the story alive, either. No links, no cites, nothing. Oh, they'll profile light satirists like Wonkette. But when it comes to crediting the work of serious journo-bloggers who do their own reporting, forget it.
Meanwhile, Captains Quarters, Hugh Hewitt, and Powerline are quick to credit and recognize the legwork of smaller blogger/reporters.
The contrast in professionalism could not be more stark.
And the reporting...it's all been laid out at the Times' feet. The bloggers have already done all the legwork except for nabbing the tape itself...and the New York Times reporters STILL managed to blow the story. They apparently did no original reporting of their own, besides checking their own archives for Jordan columns and calling a CNN flack.
Once again, a shameful showing on the part of Big Media.
Splash, out
Jason
Reading the letters and the news items on Romenesko, I've been struck by a couple of things:
1. the level of professional navel-gazing going on here (why are our
circulation numbers dropping, why don't people trust us anymore) and
2. the lack of any significant mention of the firestorm raging around
CNN and Eason Jordan, either in the news items posted or in the letters.
The two are, I believe, inextricably linked. Too many journalists (N.B., I did NOT say "reporters") these days are like the vast majority of academics: stuck in our cubicles (the newsroom version of the Ivory Tower) talking to folks just like us on the beats we cover rather than combing the streets talking to everyday folks.
When one of our gets into trouble, we circle the collective wagons and say hardly a word until forced to, kicking and screaming, which brings
me to the Jordan/CNN controversy. On the Romenesko site, do a search
and you'll find just two mentions of the matter: one a siderail link and the other a main news link to Howard Kurtz's apologia that ran in The Post. Nothing else ... no links to any of the blogs, any of the other media that have written about the matter, nothing. It's as if the Dan Rather/Memogate game plan is being run all over again.
Has anything moved on the AP wire about the controversy? If so, I haven't seen it. Guys, if Eason Jordan were the head of any other outfit as large and as important as CNN and had made comments such as he's made, we'd be in full-attack mode. Why are we holding back?
Which brings me back to the question of navel-gazing. Our readers, our
viewers -- more than half of whom believe we're biased and base our
reporting decisions on our personal politics -- aren't stupid. They know what's going on ... and they're tuning out. Or at least not tuning into us.
I agree wholeheartedly.
Romenesko and the Poynter Institute failed utterly in its mission to the journalism community, by all but ignoring the story.
Meanwhile, now that Eason has resigned and there is simply no way to sweep the controversy under the rug, outlets like the New York Times are still failing to note the precedents for Easons remarks, presaged in Portugal and the Guardian.
And no, the New York Times doesn't bother mentioning WHICH bloggers kept the story alive, either. No links, no cites, nothing. Oh, they'll profile light satirists like Wonkette. But when it comes to crediting the work of serious journo-bloggers who do their own reporting, forget it.
Meanwhile, Captains Quarters, Hugh Hewitt, and Powerline are quick to credit and recognize the legwork of smaller blogger/reporters.
The contrast in professionalism could not be more stark.
And the reporting...it's all been laid out at the Times' feet. The bloggers have already done all the legwork except for nabbing the tape itself...and the New York Times reporters STILL managed to blow the story. They apparently did no original reporting of their own, besides checking their own archives for Jordan columns and calling a CNN flack.
Once again, a shameful showing on the part of Big Media.
Splash, out
Jason
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