Barry Ritholtz beautifully sums up the declining newspaper business:
I would argue that mainstream newspapers haven’t just lost readers because of the Internet as an abstract new medium, but that they lost readers because they became – with some exceptions – nothing but official stenographers for the powers-that-be. No wonder people have lost all faith in them.
Years from now, anyone who wants to know why newspapers died need only review the paragraph above. Also, I'm not sure why Barry used the plural form of "exceptions"--he probably meant the New York Times.
"And if an epitaph be my story, I'd have a short one ready for my own: I had a lover's quarrel with the world." -- Robert Frost
Showing posts with label mass media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mass media. Show all posts
Friday, September 25, 2009
Saturday, May 9, 2009
WH Auden on Mass Media
Attributed to W.H. Auden, one of my favorite poets:
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. This is bad for everyone; the majority lose all genuine taste of their own, and the minority become cultural snobs.
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. This is bad for everyone; the majority lose all genuine taste of their own, and the minority become cultural snobs.
- "The Poet & The City" (p.83)
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