September 3 2010

Bum journalism is letting us down

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Citizen journalism, blogs   and forums are increasingly popular as powerful and competing alternative resources to the mainstream media. This has led to a burgeoning discussion about the state of the industry and particularly the quality and relevance of newspaper journalism. Mike Farrier shares his views on the ailing condition of the UK media and   the development of   what he describes as  'lazy journalism'.

Piers Morgan, former editor of the Daily Mirror and proprietor of trade journal Press Gazette, says:  "Will some newspapers eventually close? Probably. Will journalism continue to thrive? Certainly. Who will emerge as the dominant players? Nobody, least of all me, can possibly guess.

My problem with the media at present is that the only people journalists and broadcasters listen to is themselves. They are up their own behinds with self importance, under the impression that they represent the views of the public at large without ever having asked them if they give a monkey's. I've said it before and it's true, individuals don't change the newspapers they read because of its content one week or day to the other (one particular issue would have to contain something very personally offensive for this to happen). They buy the same newspaper every single day because they have been doing so for years .

Thousands of people buy the Daily Mirror and The Sun for the sport section and never read any of the stuff that goes before it because they know it's not worth wiping their arses with let alone reading. They like the sports reporting, nothing more. Many people buy another paper at the same time for reading the non-sports news, but these publications would have everyone believe that they're a pantheon of journalistic integrity, speaking for their readership when the only reason they sell anything in large numbers is simply human apathy in action. People like and get comfortable in their habits and shrink from change. There are actually people who have palpitations when an unexpected supplement accompanies their daily rag! They run from it like scared little girls.

The growth of what I call  'lazy journalism' is another reason why newspapers are in decline. Some fleet street hacks don't have anything original to say so they merely do an Evening Standard style   review of an article published elsewhere. They then attach far too much importance to it.

Whenever someone in the public eye ( 'media eye' is what the expression should be these days) speaks for themselves, intelligently or stupidly, doesn't matter which, someone in the press always gets up on their high horse and criticises them for it, taking what they've said out of context or worse yet, express worries that the public are going to run out into the streets and do something silly or criminal.

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I've noticed that too

I've noticed that too. Indeed the number of people using this way of communicating is bigger and bigger as time passes by.

Newspapers are easy

I'm not really convinced that citizen journalism poses a serious threat to the future of newspapers. There's this idea that news stories written by citizen journalists are going to be free of political bias and questionable angles. Maybe that's true, but they're also likely to be less accurate and less carefully put together. Likely, not certainly, you understand.

If you want to read news, you go to whoever's got the best news-gathering system in place, because you want accurate, up-to-date and comprehensive reporting. National newspapers, both free and paid-for, are lightyears ahead for that.

Buying a newspaper for 45 pence a day (actually an incredibly cheap price tag in this day and age for value-for-money) is so much easier than going onto the net to find out what's going on in the world. Technology is getting better every morning we wake up, but it's getting more complicated and sophisticated as well. And that's slowing down all but the most technologically-savvy readers who just want news.

The Future Looks Bleak For Newspapers

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The overall decline in newspaper popularity as reflected regularly in ABC figures has stimulated debate among veteran journalists like Roy Greenslade. He says: “For a speech last week I did a comparison between sales in 1966 and 2006. Read this, friends from Fleet Street’s yesteryear, and weep. Forty years ago, the serious daily papers sold about 2m and the populars together sold 13.5m, a daily total of 15.55m. In 1966, the Sunday titles – of whatever size and persuasion – together sold a grand total of 23.4m. As of last month, the daily total had come down to 11.3m and the Sunday total was 12m. In percentage terms therefore, over 40 years the circulation of dailies has fallen 26.8% and the Sundays by 48.9%. Does this suggest that newspapers are doomed? Well, I don’t believe that all newspapers will die. That would be foolish. But I really can’t imagine a future for some of them, can you?

I'm glad I'm not a journalist!

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By David B 

I guess weak national newspapers could still be run as vanity/propaganda sheets for many years. Perish the thought that this might be happening already! As an avid consumer of news, I must admit I don't buy papers very often during the week these days. Most stories are available on the web for free, and Metro takes the edge off your appetite for paying to read stuff in more detail.

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