Journalism, Democracy and the Public Interest: rethinking media pluralism for the Digital Age by Steven Barnett (link below), makes some points, which are relate nicely to the ...death of big media debate...... not least one quote.
“The political economy of online news is not one of diversity, but one of concentration ..... the democratic potential remains just that, potential, despite the deluge of information available on the web, old media sources remain the privileged tellers of most stories circulating around the world”.
As I said in my previous posting - if the big media isn't doing the public interest journalism, who is?
One criticism of Auntie Beeb is that she occupies such large a space on the web, unnecessarily.
As she's not about profit, is there an argument for her to scale down her web presence, thus saving some expenditure which could, in turn, be ploughed into quality local media including, dare I say it, print?
These are the areas that really need public service media help, not the web.
There's enough on t'internet already and to be fair the standard of much BBC content shovelled onto the web seems average at best and certainly available elsewhere.
Don't get me wrong, I passionately believe in an independent and publicly supported BBC, but surely it's there to fill the gaps left by the for-profit corporations as well as providing balance.
I reckon it's worth a conversation at least.
History shows that innovation comes from the little guys; see Wright Brother, Bell, Whittle, etc. etc. the big boys get to bureaucratic and become meetings people, keynote speakers, blah, blah, blah. Change is overdue.
We are fed up with the negative democracy news items doled out by the faceless news script writers contrlled by control freaks. The good news is on the web look and you will find!
Big media’s not dead – it’s evolving
This Reuters Institute working paper,
Journalism, Democracy and the Public Interest: rethinking media pluralism for the Digital Age by Steven Barnett (link below), makes some points, which are relate nicely to the ...death of big media debate...... not least one quote.
“The political economy of online news is not one of diversity, but one of concentration ..... the democratic potential remains just that, potential, despite the deluge of information available on the web, old media sources remain the privileged tellers of most stories circulating around the world”.
As I said in my previous posting - if the big media isn't doing the public interest journalism, who is?
Download the pdf here.
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As she's not about profit, is there an argument for her to scale down her web presence, thus saving some expenditure which could, in turn, be ploughed into quality local media including, dare I say it, print?
These are the areas that really need public service media help, not the web.
There's enough on t'internet already and to be fair the standard of much BBC content shovelled onto the web seems average at best and certainly available elsewhere.
Don't get me wrong, I passionately believe in an independent and publicly supported BBC, but surely it's there to fill the gaps left by the for-profit corporations as well as providing balance.
I reckon it's worth a conversation at least.
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