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Are you a regular listener of On The Media? They don't report the news, they report on how the news is reported. So techniques, trends, and ways that the news a
by herge 13y ago
Are you a regular listener of On The Media? They don't report the news, they report on how the news is reported. So techniques, trends, and ways that the news and the media, including Mr. Sandman, report news and facts.
- gruseom 13y agoI've listened a few times and developed the impression that its main preoccupation is its own insider status. There's no reporting at all in, for example, this piece. Let's not assume that a PR consultant (Mr. Sandman) belongs naturally to "the news and the media" without mentioning the much larger question of whether an independent press would be dominated by PR in the first place.
- tptacek 13y agoYou should listen to OTM more. It's media criticism, so what reporting it does will necessarily seem like navel-gazing. But there's been some really great stuff on it. A less... lubricated... venue for this kind of analysis is Jack Schafer's work for Reuters. Schafer has none of the insider status that OTM does.
- DanBC 13y agoBBC Radio Four also has a programme called "The Media Show" which is pretty good. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dv9hq http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dv9hq)