#manual soz #Bewegungen & soc #Media - 02mySocMed_201109_no02. Why I do not want to work at Google [via: ] Why I do not want to work at Google. Fair and balanced after all? The bias of the US press. Fair and balanced after all? The bias of the US press. Riccardo Puglisi, James M. Snyder, Jr., 1 September 2011 Citizens typically obtain information about relevant policy issues via the mass media. Moreover, they might make judgements about the relative importance of issues – whether crime or the economy is the most important problem facing society, for example – by comparing the relative amount of media coverage issues receive, otherwise known as “agenda-setting” (McCombs and Shaw 1972). Of course, journalistic norms dictate objectivity in coverage. But objectivity might fail in practice. If (i) media bias is mainly driven by the preferences of owners, editors, or journalists, (ii) most media outlets are biased in the same direction, and (iii) the media have some persuasive power, then media bias may have pervasive and long-term political and policy effects.
Groseclose and Milyo conclude that the US media display an overall liberal bias, i.e. most media outlets are to the left of the average American voter. Figure 1 Figure 2. Social Media Content Curation - Is journalism as we know it becoming obsolete? | GigaOM. There have been plenty of obituaries written for the newspaper business, most of which have a kernel of truth to them — but is journalism as we know it at risk as well? Dave Winer, a programming guru and visiting scholar at the New York University school of journalism, says it is. In a blog post on Friday, Winer argued that “journalism itself is becoming obsolete” because now anyone can do it. Is he right? In some ways, yes. One thing is for sure: Journalism is being transformed by the web and by real-time publishing networks and what Om calls the “democracy of distribution.” Whether that’s good or bad depends on your point of view.
If it’s important, the news will find me Winer is certainly right about the fact that the way we consume “news,” and even where that news comes from, has changed dramatically in just the last few years. [read full article. Is journalism as we know it becoming obsolete? There have been plenty of obituaries written for the newspaper business, most of which have a kernel of truth to them — but is journalism as we know it at risk as well? Dave Winer, a programming guru and visiting scholar at the New York University school of journalism, says it is. In a blog post on Friday, Winer argued that “journalism itself is becoming obsolete” because now anyone can do it. Is he right? In some ways, yes. One thing is for sure: Journalism is being transformed by the web and by real-time publishing networks and what Om calls the “democracy of distribution.” Whether that’s good or bad depends on your point of view. Winer’s post was actually about the recent kerfuffle over TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington’s launch of a venture-capital fund, a topic that has received more than enough coverage already elsewhere.
It cost a lot of money to push bits around the net before there was a net. If it’s important, the news will find me Random acts of journalism. Christoph Hörstel: ARD u ZDF lügen. Christoph Hörstel: Ich verließ ARD=ZDF weil ich nie mehr zuviel Lügerei mitorganisieren wollte.