The Media: Journalism In Crisis Review

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(More customer reviews)The Media: Journalism in Crisis, is apparently a companion book for a documentary, and it reads like one. A minimal amount of text discussing a particular subject is made, with the remainder of chapters being descriptions of a person, a quotation from said person, and their photograph. This is extremely distracting and, like television today, makes it difficult and prevents me from thinking or paying attention to what is being said.
A good book, in my opinion, will give some sort of brief history of journalism in its myriad forms, and then demonstrate how it's changed and how, as the title suggests, it's in crisis. Based on what I've read, it's not journalism that's in crisis, but this book definitely is. Fractured, hard to follow, at times incorrect (e.g. cable wasn't "born to get viewed out of the clutches of the then big business at ABC, CBS and NBC." It was born to help get these broadcasts to areas that were unreachable due to local geography... this is Media 101 for any media student.)
Is Journalism changing dramatically? Are opinions invading news? Are people no longer getting their information from a small number of "trusted sources"? Is it an interesting topic? Absolutely on all counts. But this is not the book you should read if you want to learn about this important topic.

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Veteran television reporter Neal Cortell tackles the subject of in The Media, Journalism in Crisis. With the help of renowned journalists, academics, regulators, and activists, The Media discusses the state of news that America awoke to each day included clearly delineated separation of reporting and editorial opinion, compared to the internet and numerous TV news outlets that frequently blur that line critical to true journalistic integrity.The elder generation might long for old fashion journalism. The younger "Instant access generation" may be wholly unfamiliar with it and the critical distinction between quantity and quality.Are we better off now then in days past and how did we get here?

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