Dan Rather on the Crisis Facing American Media.
In this video Dan Rather speaks about how he believes that as the old media world is collapsing, the outcome of new journalism is in doubt. He goes on to stress that there is a crisis of diminishing quality in American journalism and how journalists are lacking "guts and grit."
What caught my eye the most in this video is how he says how we "desperately need creative thinking" in journalism. This is something I believe as well because so many media sources are putting out the same, in my opinion, tired ideas. Just today I saw four magazines with essentially the same cover page feauturing the young girls of MTV's "Teen Mom".
The most important thing, and the idea that is emphasized most clearly, is that our media is in a time of dangerous transition. Rather asks the the question of "How do we maximize this new media world?" while keeping it independant and not corporate. I found this video to be very thought provoking because while I think many agree with Rather that good journalism on the web adds value, there is currently so much on the web that how to we filter the good from bad? This poses a big question as the the internet is becoming the main news source for more and more people.
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