Murdoch's brand of journalism

[finnbow]

Rupert Murdoch's Newcorp (owner of Fox News) launched it's new iPad app called "The Daily." The new editor-in-chief, in a leaked memo, tells his reporters that "Egypt is Over" and to concentrate on news stories along the lines of "the oldest dog in America or the richest man in South Dakota."

http://daringminds.com/new/editor-of...rica%E2%80%99/

H.L. Mencken was certainly right. It seems the Murdoch doesn't want to publish anything beyond the intellectual capacity of his readers.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Rupert Murdoch's Newcorp (owner of Fox News) launched it's new iPad app called "The Daily." The new editor-in-chief, in a leaked memo, tells his reporters that "Egypt is Over" and to concentrate on news stories along the lines of "the oldest dog in America or the richest man in South Dakota."

http://daringminds.com/new/editor-of...rica%E2%80%99/

H.L. Mencken was certainly right. It seems the Murdoch doesn't want to publish anything beyond the intellectual capacity of his readers.

Finn, did you actually read the article?

Chas

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Charles

Finn, did you actually read the article?

Chas

Yep. Did you?

[Charles]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Yep. Did you?

As a matter of fact I did, and came to the same conclusions as Ed.

Chas

[Fast_Eddie]

Originally Posted by Charles

As a matter of fact I did, and came to the same conclusions as Ed.

Chas

I hate when you do that.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Charles

As a matter of fact I did, and came to the same conclusions as Ed.

Chas

Fair enough, Chas. I just think the "dumbing down" of the news is not particularly helpful in a system of government that depends on a well informed electorate (or so said Thomas Jefferson).

I guess we're way past that though.

[Fast_Eddie]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Fair enough, Chas. I just think the "dumbing down" of the news is not particularly helpful in a system of government that depends on a well informed electorate (or so said Thomas Jefferson).

I guess we're way past that though.

I agree with you there. We need protection from purely capitalistic enterprise in important areas. I happen to believe journalism is one of those areas. But the Republicans are working hard right now to cut what little funding Public Broadcasting gets. Yeah. That'll fix that deficit right up.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Fair enough, Chas. I just think the "dumbing down" of the news is not particularly helpful in a system of government that depends on a well informed electorate (or so said Thomas Jefferson).

I guess we're way past that though.

Reading that article, I was of the impression that Faux told their reporters to get off of their asses and go out and find a story.

Of course, if anyone is dumb enough to come back with his own bone, he'll wind up being marginalized by the rest of the lazy bastards simply because he's making them look bad.

Chas

[merrylander]

Well it took bloody forever to load but it is about what I would expect from News Corp. In simple English he was saying dig me up some dirt so we can force the Whitehouse press secretary to download our crap.

[Fast_Eddie]

Meh. It's not so bad. He told them to get out and enterprise some stories. Taking the oldest dog thing out of context is a little misleading.

"We need to get out there and start finding more compelling stories from around the country – not just scraping the web and the wires, but getting out on the ground and reporting...

Force the new White House press secretary to download The Daily for the first time because everyone at the gaggle is asking about a story we broke."

Sounds like he's doing his job and pushing his folks to work hard to make a name for their product. Nothing wrong with that.

If you want unbiased journalism, stop looking to advertising supported products. Not too far from looking for news on the back of a cereal box. Just like Post Cereal, the "Post" in most towns will print anything that helps them move more product.