“The public interest” I think is also a bit elusive and is phrase that has been so widely used by policy advocates on all sides that I’m not sure it has much ability to build or sustain credibility. Other people don’t know the difference between opinion and fact even when it’s labeled, and for them labels are also meaningless. Some people know the difference between opinion and fact, and for them labels are meaningless. I have a quibble with his third and fifth points because I’m not sure these can be accomplished in a way that convinces and builds trust with the audience, even when done by the most well-intentioned journalists. Those seem pretty straightforward and not too onerous. Journalism should serve the public interest rather than the personal whim of bloggers or special interests of any kind.įinally, he says, “Too much concentration on the philosophical questions about journalism in the digital world runs the risk of ignoring the most important question before us. Photography and video should not be doctored or misleadingly used, unless it is obvious it has been altered only to entertain or express opinion.ĥ. News and opinion should be clearly differentiated.Ĥ. Conflicts of interest should also be disclosed, if not avoided altogether.ģ. All journalists should accurately identify themselves.Ģ. The former executive editor of The Washington Post laid them out recently in a speech at Harvard:ġ.
JAMES DOWNIE WASHINGTON POST TV
Here’s what passed through my filter today:Ĭontinue reading “I Filter, You Summarize?” Author Ryan Thornburg Posted on AugCategories Daily Filter Tags Adobe, advertising, Aspen Institute, Dan Primack, design, e-mail, Fortune, freemium, Hulu, hyperlocal, iPad, iPhone, James Kilpatrick, Jason Kilar, Jim Barnett, Kaplan, Knight Foundation, Mexico, mobile, multimedia, Nick Denton, Patch, Reuters, Slideshare, social media, Texas Tribune, TV Guide, USA Today, Washington Post, YouTube Len Downie’s Rules for Good Journalism If you read one of the stories that pass my filter, will kindly post one comment if you find anything interesting in the articles themselves? I find the headlines and I ask you to filter back to me the new facts, missing info and impact of the stories.
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So here’s a new deal I’m going to start trying. I am much more efficient at pulling things that might be interesting than carefully reading text for anything that’s actually new and noteworthy. Despite by efforts to use social and technical filters to focus my daily doses of e-mail newsletters, RSS feeds and tweets, I still find myself swamped with more words than I can read in the hour I’ve given myself to “read-in” each day.
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Clay Shirky said we don’t suffer from information overload, but filter failure.