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"What's even more shocking is that the Globe has been doing great journalism—winning Pulitzers, etc." Wow! That buggy whip company is DOING GREAT! Some of thei
by MyDogHasFleas 13y ago
"What's even more shocking is that the Globe has been doing great journalism—winning Pulitzers, etc."
Wow! That buggy whip company is DOING GREAT! Some of their buggy whip makers just got awards from the Buggy Whip Makers Guild for their high quality buggy whips!
- kingkawn 13y agoRegardless of delivery method the actual work of journalism has a role that has value outside of the advertising used to support it. Any news company, web based or otherwise, should aspire to that same quality.
- duaneb 13y agoYou're right, journalism is completely old fashioned and we can just do with pundits and gossip. ... Have you gone mad? The medium is irrelevant to the content.
- JumpCrisscross 13y agoI think the argument is that Pulitzers are a low-meaning metric for journalistic quality today given that they're awarded by an (allegedly irrelevant) subset of the media. I read the "buggy whip" part as humorous garnishing.
- duaneb 13y agoTrust in journalism is inherently tied to brand: we trust the Globe (or the Times or whatever) to do fact-checking for us. There is still no reason for me to trust anyone on the internet with this regard: it could be karl rove in his PJs for all I know. In this sense newspapers still hold immense value even though they've lost most ways of commodifying it.
- pbreit 13y agoYour analogy makes no sense. Journalism is hardly outdated.