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The future of war reporting
January 18, 2009 | Posted by Londonstani - 6:09pm | 17 Comments
Now, this is utter genius!
If you follow media issues, you'll know that newspapers, magazines and broadcasters are getting poorer. And the cash sink hole that they need to cut is foreign reporting. It costs loads to cover, and brings in little in the way of readership, viewers etc.
But the problem is that when something major happens on the world stage, new outlets have to cover it in some way for the sake of their own image. Ie. "How can a respectable international organisation like XXX NOT cover a story like XXX."
Bit of a problem, right?... How do you get round this? Well, one answer is celebrity journalism. In 2005, the San Francisco Chronicle sent Sean Penn to Iran. In the same vein, kinda, Joe the Plumber is covering Gaza.
My favourite bits? "Rockets?.. you can't plan your day? You can't take a picnic." and "the Israel people".
The part about "the media shouldn't have any business in it[reporting a war]."?.. Well, he's probably just repeating what he heard the editors say before he left for his "assignment".
If you follow media issues, you'll know that newspapers, magazines and broadcasters are getting poorer. And the cash sink hole that they need to cut is foreign reporting. It costs loads to cover, and brings in little in the way of readership, viewers etc.
But the problem is that when something major happens on the world stage, new outlets have to cover it in some way for the sake of their own image. Ie. "How can a respectable international organisation like XXX NOT cover a story like XXX."
Bit of a problem, right?... How do you get round this? Well, one answer is celebrity journalism. In 2005, the San Francisco Chronicle sent Sean Penn to Iran. In the same vein, kinda, Joe the Plumber is covering Gaza.
My favourite bits? "Rockets?.. you can't plan your day? You can't take a picnic." and "the Israel people".
The part about "the media shouldn't have any business in it[reporting a war]."?.. Well, he's probably just repeating what he heard the editors say before he left for his "assignment".
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