Posted on 01/11/2010 8:28:37 AM PST by mathprof
There are more places to go for local news but less news to find there, and the great majority of actual reporting still comes from newspapers, according to a study of the Baltimore area that is scheduled to be released on Monday.
Looking at six major story lines that developed over one week last July, 83 percent of the reports in local news media “were essentially repetitive, conveying no new information,” said the study, by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, an arm of the Pew Research Center.
Despite diminished resources of established news organizations, “of the stories that did contain new information, nearly all, 95 percent, came from old media — most of them newspapers,” it said. “These stories then tended to set the narrative agenda for most other media outlets.”
The study found 53 different sources of local news — general-interest newspapers like The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Post and their Web sites, several smaller papers in the region, publications devoted to a niche like local business, local television and radio stations, and new online news sites and blogs. Even the reporting done by traditional media was driven mostly by government statements rather than journalists’ own digging, the study found.
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Even the reporting done by traditional media was driven mostly by government statements rather than journalists’ own digging, the study found.
Instead, they "supply new information".
There's quite a big difference in those two concepts.
Concur.
That’s the problem. The truth is rarely part of their new information as well as their old information.
LOL You have to scrape the bottom of the barrel to come up with something that’s suppose to be pro about the MSM and this new information is really thin.
They are supposed to “report the truth”.
Instead, they “supply new information”.
There’s quite a big difference in those two concepts.”
Add to that the time factor-— the newspaper is delivered sometime between 4 & 9 AM....depending on the weather.
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