Some day the market will eliminate ‘boring’ news as an inefficiency
March 31, 2008Also redundant coverage. Do we really need 635 versions of the same wire story cropping up on Google News?
“serious journalism was described at the conference, repeatedly, as something like broccoli, or medicine the citizenry needs to spoon down, no matter how unpalatable, if democracy is to survive.” He “[struggled] to think of another industry that views its premium product as something akin to a nasty cough syrup - necessary, good for your health, but irredeemably foul-tasting.” He wondered, shouldn’t at least some of the value and energy journalists now place in investigative and civic journalism be placed toward making their work more “palatable?”
Nanny-Journalism is the mother of all news business problems from The Future of News
