Jeff Jarvis on the Real Reason the Media is Going After Craig Newmark

Re:Jeff Jarvis on the Real Reason the Media is Going After C... by tomjen3 on Monday September 06, 2010 @02:42AM (#1666091)

Actually the news have just recently fallen from their very high quality during the 60 and early 81.

Walter Cronkite actually said on tv "and that is the way it is" once he had delivered the news, but not if he ended the news with an opinion piece.

Now compare this with William Hearst with his "Please remain. You furnish the pictures and I will furnish the war" during the period of yellow journalism.

There aren't really any Hearsts around anymore (though their actual heirs still run the news), and we are properly closer to Conkrite but we are more aware of what is actually going on now than ever - that is why it looks like the news are getting worse.

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Re:Jeff Jarvis on the Real Reason the Media is Going After C... by adolph on Monday September 06, 2010 @11:50AM (#1666870)

The statement may be falsely attributed to Hearst:

http://academic2.american.edu/~wjc/wjc3/notlikely.htm

The economic context from which the statement arose has some similarities to today. Hearst and Pulitzer were competing to grow newspaper circulation. Strangely, Pulitzer appears to escape the bad rap Hearst gets, probably for funding a journalism school and prize.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_of_the_Spanish–Ameri...

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Re:Jeff Jarvis on the Real Reason the Media is Going After C... by jfager on Monday September 06, 2010 @11:34AM (#1666842)

What is Rupert Murdoch if not a modern Hearst?

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