I’m a big fan of citizen journalism but it’s not a replacement for the kind of extended, in-depth research and careful communications that professional news organizations have the wherewithal to perform.
Citizen journalism and professional journalism should focus on their respective strengths and respect and integrate the other as appropriate. If this video is to be believed, Fox seems to feel the future of journalism is professional retweeting.
But they may just be playing that angle up to look modern I suppose.
Very smart. This way, they can separate the saucer of the USS Fox, leaving its civilian population behind, and head into battle unencumbered by the unwashed masses yearning to breathe free.
Those folks are doing important work. Every morning they get a directive from Roger Ailes himself.
Today, they’re photoshopping a black hoodie and a nose-bone into every photograph of Obama in the Newscorp archives.
In their spare moments they create versions of Fox News programming in which they’ve always opposed the radical “Tea Party,” which secretly cooperated with Obama in making the country default on its loans. They’ve only got until October 17 to get this work done, so wish them luck!
If those interns, I mean journalists, are reviewing footage from the field and editing video those screens would make some sense . . . a couple of feet away. Touch? no, not after twenty minutes. Why don’t they hire the set designer from CSI? Oh, wait. It is just followers of Fox News who watch this. No need for any kind of appeals to credibility. It would be completely wasted.
I worked for a number of TV stations, including a FOX O&O. When I sat in on the morning news meetings I never heard anyone ask “Do we have any extended, in-depth research on that story?” What they always wanted to know was “How good’s the video?” At least 50% of modern “reporting” is nothing more than pulling wirecopy up on a computer and doing a copy & paste.
