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November 28, 2005
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to the whinging billionaire who owns one: Zuckerman slags blogs
Writing from catbird seat in US News & World Report, owner Mortimer B. Zuckerman disdains the internet.
"There's a virtual galaxy of obscure blogs that may get a few hits a day but occasionally light up the blogosphere when they're picked up and amplified by the mainstream press... Blogs often resort to blood sport in their commentaries on politics and life, with many repeating and reporting without fact checking... This new age of journalism is challenging the "trustee model" of journalism, where journalistic professionals served as gatekeepers, filtering the defamatory and the false. Today, a large segment of the public believes the new media are flavoring their reporting so as to tell us not so much how the world works but how the media believe it ought to work... The blogs, while fragmenting our mass audience and carrying many more inaccuracies than mainstream media, have nonetheless democratized journalism by giving citizens daily and immediate access to different opinions and, sometimes, to purveyors of truly expert knowledge." No footnotes in Mr. Zuckerman's nest of generalities are provided to discern the balance of inaccuracies between the blogosphere and mainstream media. ["Mainstream media" may be defined in this case as "Who doesn't take car service?"] [The photo is from USNews.com; their photo editors slugged it as "mug_mort.jpg", not we.]
Posted by pride at November 28, 2005 12:57 PM
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