Darwin provides a good summary and poses great things to think about below. Here are few additional questions I'd like us to address in class tomorrow. Feel free to add additional questions in the comments:
1. What were the conditions that led to such a failure of the press in the lead-up to the Iraq War? And why didn't alternative/new independent media news sources succeed in altering significantly the tightly controlled news environment?
2. There are some great innovations in international media developed, to varying extents, to make up for commercial news shortcomings, for example Global Voices Online, Witness, Reuter's Alertnet, Global Post, and AlJazeera.
a. Do you think that the new media landscape is richer today for those who care and who have access to the Web?
b. And can we expect the same degree of innovation to emerge to fill the role of the government watchdog left empty by thinning newspaper staffs?
3. What are the different ideas about the changes in the news media landscape expressed by Robert McChesney, Deepa Fernandez, Amy Goodman, Chris Atton, and Henry Jenkins?
4. Fernandez says that participatory journalism is the the most concrete step we can take toward strengthening community. What does she mean and how would it work. Conversely what are the impediments to this vision?
5. What is the nature of "truth" and of "quality" in the news news media landscape. That is, how are truth claims made by news producers who don't follow the norms of objectivity in their work? And how is quality established by those whose work is not backed by a brand?
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