Citizensheep » newspapers http://citizensheep.com/blog Michael Grimes lives in Birmingham (UK). This is his blog about anything that he fancies. Wed, 23 May 2012 15:29:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Yet another tuppence on why traditional media isn’t dead yet http://citizensheep.com/blog/2011/01/05/yet-another-tuppence-on-why-traditional-media-isnt-dead-yet/ http://citizensheep.com/blog/2011/01/05/yet-another-tuppence-on-why-traditional-media-isnt-dead-yet/#comments Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:45:51 +0000 Michael http://citizensheep.com/blog/2011/01/05/yet-another-tuppence-on-why-traditional-media-isnt-dead-yet/

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    • ]]>     I’ve just read on the cover of Metro that the details of Prince William’s wedding ceremony were released ‘exclusively on social networking site Twitter’. Even Clarence House is bypassing traditional news outlets; so are we finally seeing the demise of ‘traditional’ media? No, probably not.

    The thing is I didn’t discover this news on Twitter. For a start I don’t follow Clarence House, because frankly I’m not that interested in them (and even if I did follow everyone I found interesting I wouldn’t have time left to breathe).

    But I am interested in seeing a variety of news stories; if I read only the news I gather myself then I will only ever see what I want to, and never discover anything particularly new or challenging. Curated news is still king for me, be that online or in print (and I’ve yet to find an online newspaper lying discarded in a train carriage).

    Also I need to feel confident that I’ll find at least something of interest, and I want it to be written well. That takes skill in both writing and editing, and at the moment it remains the professional media that instills in me the most confidence in those areas.

    Anyway, you’ve probably read far too much hot air on this subject; and so I say goodnight.

    ]]>     http://citizensheep.com/blog/2011/01/05/yet-another-tuppence-on-why-traditional-media-isnt-dead-yet/feed/ 0     A world without newspapers http://citizensheep.com/blog/2010/03/01/a-world-without-newspapers/ http://citizensheep.com/blog/2010/03/01/a-world-without-newspapers/#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:50:50 +0000 Michael http://citizensheep.com/blog/2010/03/01/a-world-without-newspapers/

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    • ]]>     A very good piece by David Schneiderman on the effect of the internet on journalism. I particularly like his 'Final Perspective', which I think applies to organisations acroos sectors:

    "Many of the fundamental, underlying principles of effective public relations remain unchanged by this emerging world without newspapers.

    "But make no mistake, the revolution is indeed here.

    "And that fact makes it all the more imperative that every institution affected by this revolution not miss the boat in adapting its communications capabilities to this new reality."

    Visit A world without newspapers

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    • ]]>     Recent research reveals that young people in the UK have little faith in journalists, but see them as having the greatest influence on government decisions. And tabloid journalists, it seems, are the worst of a bad bunch.

    The research was undertaken last week by online pollsters YouGov, on behalf of the Citizenship Foundation. Almost 4,000 young people between 14 and 25 took part in the survey.

    In answer to the question ‘How much, if at all, do you trust the following to tell the truth?’, journalists fared poorly. The scores for ‘little to no trust’ make worrying reading:

    TV news presenters and reporters 48%
    Journalists on ‘up-market’ papers
    (eg The Guardian and The Times)    		 49%
    Journalists on local papers 56%
    Journalists on ‘mid-market’ papers
    (eg The Mail and The Express)    		 81%
    Journalists on tabloid papers
    (eg The Sun and The Mirror)    		 87%

    Or do they? Is it in fact reassuring that The Sun isn’t trusted by its vast readership, or that newspapers don’t necessarily hold as much sway over the public as maybe we believe?

    Further information

    ]]>     http://citizensheep.com/blog/2009/12/01/young-people-see-the-media-as-powerful-but-dont-trust-it-particularly-not-the-tabloids/feed/ 1     Read All About It (In French) http://citizensheep.com/blog/2009/02/06/read-all-about-it-in-french/ http://citizensheep.com/blog/2009/02/06/read-all-about-it-in-french/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:04:40 +0000 Michael http://citizensheep.com/blog/2009/02/06/read-all-about-it-in-french/ These are my links for 6 February 2009 from 10:12 to 10:12]]> An interesting piece by Jonathan Salem Baskin about the difference between online newspapers and traditional print-based ones. He argues that crowd-sourcing produces a consensus from a mix of opinion, not of facts; and that the media ‘conceptually, are aribiters of fact, if not truth’. I’m not sure I’m convinced, because even then ‘fact’ is generally one person’s interpretation of it. But well worth a read.

    Visit Read All About It (In French)

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