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Having waded through dozens of articles about the crisis in journalism - only to find scant mention of the dread "c" word - I take a very skeptical view of new titles purporting to report on the issue. So, fair warning, I have not read this book. What I have done is search via Google preview for how many times this book mentions the word crisis. Google Preview only has access to 184 of 214 pages, publishers quite rightly keeping any juicy conclusions to themselves and the book buying (and reading) public. However, prior to page 184, Google Preview only picks up some 16 mentions of the word crisis. Of those, three are contained in the cover, title pages and index. A further three refer to general economic crisis as background. Leaving a grand total of ten uses of the word crisis, averaging one every 18 pages. Whether that is enough to examine the true causes of journalism in crisis, let alone suggest effective remedy is up to other reviewers to decide.
Thin slice impression (very thin slice)? Jack Fuller offers some compelling insights into the links between human behaviour, news and new and old media, essential for formulating responses to the journalism crisis. However, the limited insights from Google Preview seem to suggest that insights into what caused the crisis in the first place - and the same forces that continue to act against strong, independent and investigative journalism are, sorry, thin on the ground. We live in an increasingly transnational, megatrending world of globalization but the G word features just once. Strange, when a vast majority of Americans - nearly half - trust "fair and balanced" Fox News as their main source of information, a station owned by a former Australian with worldwide interests.
Neuroscience may give us insight into the old paradigms of fight or flight, but of scant use in daily combat against their modern day counterparts, greed and corruption. Good grist for the mill, just not the mill itself.
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What Is Happening to News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism by Jack Fuller
avaiki, June 13, 2010
Having waded through dozens of articles about the crisis in journalism - only to find scant mention of the dread "c" word - I take a very skeptical view of new titles purporting to report on the issue. So, fair warning, I have not read this book. What I have done is search via Google preview for how many times this book mentions the word crisis. Google Preview only has access to 184 of 214 pages, publishers quite rightly keeping any juicy conclusions to themselves and the book buying (and reading) public. However, prior to page 184, Google Preview only picks up some 16 mentions of the word crisis. Of those, three are contained in the cover, title pages and index. A further three refer to general economic crisis as background. Leaving a grand total of ten uses of the word crisis, averaging one every 18 pages. Whether that is enough to examine the true causes of journalism in crisis, let alone suggest effective remedy is up to other reviewers to decide.Thin slice impression (very thin slice)? Jack Fuller offers some compelling insights into the links between human behaviour, news and new and old media, essential for formulating responses to the journalism crisis. However, the limited insights from Google Preview seem to suggest that insights into what caused the crisis in the first place - and the same forces that continue to act against strong, independent and investigative journalism are, sorry, thin on the ground. We live in an increasingly transnational, megatrending world of globalization but the G word features just once. Strange, when a vast majority of Americans - nearly half - trust "fair and balanced" Fox News as their main source of information, a station owned by a former Australian with worldwide interests.
Neuroscience may give us insight into the old paradigms of fight or flight, but of scant use in daily combat against their modern day counterparts, greed and corruption. Good grist for the mill, just not the mill itself.