Hollande: la Fabrique de l'opinion est encore à l'oeuvre. Nous le savions.
C'est d'ailleurs l'une des raisons pour lesquelles nous nous sommes mis à bloguer. Les médias rapportent un traitement de l'actualité qui ne nous convient pas. Sinon, quel autre intérêt à bloguer quand on est anonyme ? Dans le récent ouvrage de Laurent Binet, « Rien ne se passe comme prévu », un best-seller publié voici un mois, nous pouvions noter à quelques reprises comment l'information accréditée se fabrique. C'est le charme du bouquin de Laurent Binet, il n'est qu'écrivain, pas journaliste.
«Fish and Chips au pub du coin, débriefing rituel des journalistes. Demain le journalisme. Lamoufle. Klaipz.
Qui sont les journalistes ? Médias Web et viabilité $ Une transition conflictuelle ? Financement presse. Avenir journalisme. Penser le journalisme d'investigation. Journalisme. Future of online news. Mise sous tutelle de la presse en ligne ? Blogs traitant des médias. Link economy. Pulitzer prizes. As The NYT Shrinks, The Internet Now Brings Nearly A Quarter Of. It was another bleak quarter for the New York Times, which keeps on shrinking.
The New York Times announced third quarter earnings this morning. Total revenues were down 17 percent to $571 million. Of that advertising revenues decreased 27 percent to $291 million, and the online advertising portion was down 8.2 percent to $68 million. The earnings report follows yet more newsroom cuts of 100 people announced last week. There is a ray of hope, though, that the worst may be behind the storied newspaper company. Annual Decline In Internet Advertising Revenues Another interesting data point is that because its print advertising revenues are shrinking at a faster rate than its Internet advertising revenues, the Internet portion is actually a bigger percentage (23.5%) of the New York Times’ total advertising revenues than it was year ago (when it was 18.6%).
(Remember, the New York Times also has circulation revenues, so Internet advertising is still a smaller percentage of total revenues). The Fall And Rise Of Media. David Carr has a good post this morning in the New York Times called The Fall and Rise Of Media.
The post starts out with the old way of the media business. Kids would come to NYC out of school and work in marginal jobs in the hopes of getting a break and joining the "velvet rope" of mainstream media. And the post ends describing what kids do today: Somewhere down in the Flatiron, out in Brooklyn, over in Queens or up in Harlem, cabals of bright young things are watching all the disruption with more than an academic interest.
Their tiny netbooks and iPhones, which serve as portals to the cloud, contain more informational firepower than entire newsrooms possessed just two decades ago. Another View: 2 Thumbs Up for Media’s Future? - DealBook Blog - Peter Rip of Crosslink Capital explores one path to a brighter future for media, although not one for everyone.
Several pronouncements by Rupert Murdoch and Tom Curley of The Associated Press about charging Google (and others) for access to news provide the latest death rattle from the publishing industry. Now there is talk of putting a moat around some news, with the drawbridge paid for by Microsoft. The “future of media” has been a source of angst for publishers for the last 20 years or more. The Internet eviscerates any business model whose principal source of value is gated access to news, music or video. A few new companies have managed to harness the power of Internet-based delivery of traditional media into a new individuated form. Amazon pioneered personalization in e-commerce by harnessing the power of “people like you also bought this.” A few years ago, Jim Feuille, one of my partners at Crosslink, was looking for the right investment in digital music.