NewsTrust - All Rated Stories

The Afghanistan War Logs Released by Wikileaks, the World's First Stateless News Organization

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Press Think - By Jay Rosen - Jul. 26 (Opinion) - In media history up to now, the press is free to report on what the powerful wish to keep secret because the laws of a given nation protect it. But Wikileaks is able to report on what the powerful wish to keep secret because the logic of the Internet permits it. This is new.

NewsTrust Rating: 4.2 average - 6 Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right: On the Actual Ideology of the American Press

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Press Think - By Jay Rosen - Jun. 15 (Opinion) - What is the actual ideology of our political press? There are two camps on this question: one is huge and includes almost everyone who has declared a position. The other is tiny; it includes almost no one. I’m in the tiny camp, not completely alone but— well, there aren’t too many of us. (And if you’re one, raise a hand in the comments.)

NewsTrust Rating: 4.0 average - 5 Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

What CNN Should Do With Itself in Prime-Time

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Press Think - By Jay Rosen - Mar. 31 (Advocacy) - A media beat reporter asked me if I had any advice for CNN about what to do in prime-time. Just so happens I do. Ditch the View from Nowhere but don't go aping your rivals. Here's my alt line-up for CNN from 7 to 11 pm.

NewsTrust Rating: 3.8 average - 3 Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

The Quest for Innocence and the Loss of Reality in Political Journalism

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Press Think - By Jay Rosen - Feb. 21 (Editorial) - This sounds like politics the way our journalists narrate it, but as Packer notes, “A war or an economic collapse has a reality apart from perceptions, which imposes a pressure on reporters to find it. But for some reason, American political coverage is exempt.” Exactly. This was the exemption Barstow was calling on when he wrote. “It is a sprawling rebellion, but running through it is a narrative of impending tyranny.” Somehow the reality that this narrative exists as a binding force within the Tea Party movement is more reportable than the fact that the movement’s binding force is a fake crisis, a delusion shared. I leave you with a question: how the hell could this happen?

NewsTrust Rating: 4.2 average - 6 Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

He Said, She Said Journalism: Lame Formula in the Land of the Active User

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Press Think - By Jay Rosen - Apr. 13 (Opinion) - Any good blogger, competing journalist or alert press critic can spot and publicize false balance and the lame acceptance of fact-free spin. Do users really want to be left helpless in sorting out who's faking it more? The he said, she said form says they do, but I say decline has set in.

NewsTrust Rating: 4.1 average - 5 Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Filter the Best Stuff to the Front Page

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jay Rosen - Jun. 16 (News Analysis) - Sites like NewsTrust take it for granted that expansion of the media space is a good thing. But filtering and forwarding systems must keep pace. The better we are at that--finding the good stuff, forwarding it to eager users--the easier it is to relax and accept that anyone can be a producer, or that good contributions can come from anywhere. [Disclosure: This article is about NewsTrust and its recent partnership with Huffington Post's OffTheBus project, which the author is associated with]

NewsTrust Rating: 4.1 average - 3 Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Twilight of the Curmudgeon Class

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:54:49 -0700

Press Think - By Jay Rosen - Jun. 04 (News Analysis) - I hope the San Francisco Chronicle keeps Neil Henry's essay--Google Owes Big Journalism Big Time--free and clear of any pay walls. Link rot must not be allowed to set in, for this is a document. Henry teaches journalism at UC Berkeley, after a distinguished career at the Washington Post. He has a new book out, American Carnival ("Journalism Under Siege in an Age of New Media.") According to this account, Henry almost became dean at the Berkeley J-School. Neil Henry has a grievance: I see a world where corporations such as Google and Yahoo continue to enrich themselves with little returning to journalistic enterprises, all this ultimately at the expense of legions of professional reporters across America, now out of work because their employers in "old" media could not afford to pay them. And for that grievance there is to be redress: It stands to reason that Google and corporations like it, who indirectly benefit so enormously from the expensive labor of journalists, should begin to take on greater civic responsibility for journalism's plight. Fund our journalism schools. Our professional associations. Maybe our newspapers. We're on life support because of you, and others like you. So... support! He suggested that the Society of Professional Journalists, keepers of this code, get Google money. (Same society gave a First Amendment award to Judy Miller.) Romenesko did his part, running superb replies from Douglas McLennan, editor of ArtsJournal.com and Matthew R. Baise, online editor of the Baltimore Sun.

NewsTrust Rating: 3.7 average - 4 Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer