Buzzmachine on the AP News fiasco
If you’re interested at all in the newspaper industry, you should read these posts by Jeff Jarvis.
- A proposal to the Associated Press: A link ethic
- AP, hole, dig
- Hey, Saul
- The link economy v. the content economy
- Whither the AP
Today’s standdown doesn’t reduce the impact of his points at all.
I think that’s going to be a good book.
Oh, poor reporters :(
From Slate’s Today’s Papers:
Campaign workers may be exhausted from all the campaigning, but so are the journalists who have to follow them around, notes the WP’s Howard Kurtz. Although the media are often accused of trying to prolong the horse race, some reporters just want it to end. “This is a really strange phenomenon in that you’re seeing people who can’t wait for it to be over,” says Time’s Ana Marie Cox. “There’s only so many stories you can write, and we’re running out of them.”
Here’s an idea. How ‘bout they stop “follow[ing] them around” and “writing stories” and just tell us what’s news?