News from the users’ perspective

By Michael Fraase

Wednesday, 26 November 2008 08:09PM CST

Section: Media

Making sausageRead Amy Webb’s take on the most recent journalism snarkfeast. Then read this New York Observer piece by John Koblin on the state of corporate media in the United States and pseudo profile of journalist, educator, and media critic Jeff Jarvis. Then read Jarvis’s clarification, where he corrects the factual errors in Koblin’s article. Finally, take a gander at Dave Winer’s criticism of Jarvis’s traditionalism.

Got all that?

Any question that US corporate media is beyond serious decline? On the darkest days, beyond even thinking about salvaging? Winer’s correct when he writes that “the point of view of news that’s relevant: the point of view of the user of news.” Where will we get accurate news in the future? Who’s going to pay for the expensive investigative, enterprise, and beat reporting that we so desperately need now more than ever? Here’s a hint: it’s not going to be advertisers.

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