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John Nichols: The Death and Life of American Journalism
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aflatoon Avatar
aflatoon
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Posted: 04.23.12, 03:51 PM
Sounds good to me!hospital beds
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Viper Mark II
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Posted: 11.11.10, 03:42 AM
An outstanding video. A timely reminder that without truely civic oriented, investigative journalism people will not have the impartial, sharp, information that they need. Without civic oriented journalism, it becomes impossible for ordinary people to participate in democratic discourse and for them to challenge their political and business leaders on a daily basis. Journalism please, not private sector propoganda.
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Posted: 11.10.10, 09:55 AM
John is confused. There are no democracies on the planet. Only oligarchies exist: the rule by a small number of people.
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phiscal
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Posted: 10.12.10, 04:24 PM
First, contrary to the PR campaign being waged by journalists like John Nichols, there is no shortage of journalistic production in the US .

The streams of journalistic material flowing through the public's consciousness are torrential. It carries all viewpoints, though not in equal volumes. And it carries a variety of quality, much shallow and biased, but far more high quality material than anyone can keep up with.

Second, while professing otherwise, John Nichols apparently is profoundly anti-democratic.

He proposes bypassing the people's free will by extracting his industry's income via coercion (through taxes) to funnel through opinion writers that people do not want to read in volume sufficient to please him.

Third, he specifically does not believe in journalistic objectivity. He is an advocate, not an impartial observor. Just glance at his employer, The Nation. One may agree with it or not, but balance is certainly not a quality it cares to possess. The broader journalistic culture of advocacy and imbalance is one reason people have lost trust in his industry.

Mr. Nichols does have a problem. He's a buggy whip maker in a changing world. Further, I believe he's a bit squeamish that his political coalition is losing control of the media.

But his problems are not problems for democracy at large.
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cjboland
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Posted: 10.07.10, 01:36 PM
Great talk. Tough crowd to please. I’m Austalian born and bred but outside the country for 15 years and was very disappointed by the questions/comments of the crowd – probably an indication of the arrogance of the Australian media – I think the crowd just seemed to miss the points this guy was making – who was the guy saying there is no crisis in Australian journalism(was this guy watching the last election where the only person to ask difficult questions was Mark Latham) – who was the women saying journalists in Australia are making waves,etc, etc – sorry lady I can’t see it.
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Posted: 10.05.10, 11:19 AM
Excellent program.
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