The Future of the Journalist
In the good old days, a pack of journalists could enter into a secret pact. All reported the same essential facts, drawing on the same people, and coming to the same conclusions. The uniformity reports benefited journalists by taking the risk out of their jobs. No one looked bad.
The Internet demolished the journalism herd, driving holes into the fraternity’s defenses and exposing most journalists to be poorly prepared, fearful of making grievous errors and reading from a brief and superficial script. Blogs and other forms of “citizen” journalism can never replace the breadth and quality of professional journalism but the immediate effect of this torrent reportage has been to destroy the credibility of mainstream journalism.
G. Pascal Zachary, Truth or Consequences:
The Future of the Journalist in America
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