More Reasons for Public Journalism
Romenesko points us to two interesting articles that play to the very foundation of public journalism.
Michael Dukakis says that the political coverage is the same old stuff, nothing is changing, telling the Buffalo News: “There needs to be less stories about polls and more attention to what’s really happening. The media needs to bring out the kind of issues people should really be focusing on. ‘”
In the second piece NPR ombud Jeffrey Dvorkin says he is losing faith in the think tanks. He thinks they have become too opinion oriented. He also adds: ‘Harried journalists faced with conflicting information and ever-encroaching deadlines tend to put opposite points of view into their stories, then hide behind the false populism of ‘let the audience decide who is right.’”
