Did Anyone Say Crises of Journalism?
I elaborated on last week's rejoinder to David Carr on what to do about the yellowing newspaper business in a talk to a University of Westminster (London) conference. If you're interested, you can read a slightly cleaned up text on openDemocracy.
Meanwhile, the British press, unleashed, competitive, rambunctious, has been turning their (un)constitutional system upside down. It's not all T&A over there.
And then, if anyone needed more evidence of what journalism is good for, here's today's NYT on a very specific consequence of fewer journalists looking into death penalty cases: More prisoners die.
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Perhaps HRW and the ACLU could redirect their efforts to get GITMO inmates released on bail and put more efforts into the cases of the falsely convicted.
When reporters become more interested in the real guilt or innocence of inmates than the stakeholders in the US judiciary, there is a serious problem and need for reform in our much touted halls of justice.
May 21, 2009 8:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
when are all the progressives rightly concerned about the state of the journalism BUSINESS and those in Congress going to formulate some SERIOUS legislation to bail out the industry FAST before more go bankrupt? And there needs to be organizing at the mass level behind well-conceived proposals, drawn up with the direct participation of pros
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