http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/04/20/new-media-culture-challenges-limits-of-journalism-ethics/ As The Media Watches The World, We Watch The Media Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:00:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/04/20/new-media-culture-challenges-limits-of-journalism-ethics/#comment-1543 Sun, 22 Apr 2007 05:14:49 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/04/20/new-media-culture-challenges-limits-of-journalism-ethics/#comment-1543 I'm interested in this debate from an academic point of view. I'm a journalism educator and professor in a New Zealand University. I've been writng about "Journalism in the age of YouTube" for about six months. It's a wave that's coming, if not already here. There are huge ethical issues thrown up by the 'citizen journalist' movement and the ways that the political economy of the old media means that they have to consume the new media. It's no accident that Rupert Murdoch has bought myspace, or that Google has purchased youtube. There's money in the clickstream and less experienced gate-keepers in the media. That's why stuff like the Cho tape gets through and no-one thinks there could be a problem, or a backlash. Either that, or they don't care and realise that the profitability of the asset (in this case NBC and MSNBC) is worth more than a few moral qualms. I’m interested in this debate from an academic point of view. I’m a journalism educator and professor in a New Zealand University. I’ve been writng about “Journalism in the age of YouTube” for about six months. It’s a wave that’s coming, if not already here.
There are huge ethical issues thrown up by the ‘citizen journalist’ movement and the ways that the political economy of the old media means that they have to consume the new media. It’s no accident that Rupert Murdoch has bought myspace, or that Google has purchased youtube.
There’s money in the clickstream and less experienced gate-keepers in the media. That’s why stuff like the Cho tape gets through and no-one thinks there could be a problem, or a backlash.
Either that, or they don’t care and realise that the profitability of the asset (in this case NBC and MSNBC) is worth more than a few moral qualms.

]]> http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/04/20/new-media-culture-challenges-limits-of-journalism-ethics/#comment-1526 Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:40:55 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/04/20/new-media-culture-challenges-limits-of-journalism-ethics/#comment-1526 Here we are, the old media wants to pull the wool blanket over the eyes of the public and elements of the new media want to see the truth told and take the event to the kernel. Columbine and the on going cover up there has been brought into the sharp light of the new journalism. Each major event has had increasing magnification by differnt points of view and analysts are getting better at dis telling the facts. The controllers are pushing for more control of course. Free speech is now more free and government is waiting to pounce. Is that anything "new?" We most be ready for the people with the duct tape rushing forward to muzzle us. Here we are, the old media wants to pull the wool blanket over the eyes of the public and elements of the new media want to see the truth told and take the event to the kernel.
Columbine and the on going cover up there has been brought into the sharp light of the new journalism.
Each major event has had increasing magnification by differnt points of view and analysts are getting better at dis telling the facts.
The controllers are pushing for more control of course. Free speech is now more free and government is waiting to pounce. Is that anything “new?”
We most be ready for the people with the duct tape rushing forward to muzzle us.

]]> http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/04/20/new-media-culture-challenges-limits-of-journalism-ethics/#comment-1525 Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:22:28 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/04/20/new-media-culture-challenges-limits-of-journalism-ethics/#comment-1525 hi, the problem in just letting it all hang out, in the cho case in particular, people who don't uderstand psychosis will think that what they saw was cho's 'real' personality-which is no more true than "Neo" was Keanu Reeves real personality. what cho 'compiled' was as fictional as his plays. cho showed us what he WANTED to be, but was unable to achieve through the usual channels because of his illness. so all this does is create confusion and fear-the claasic role of yellow journalism. be well/ted hi,
the problem in just letting it all hang out, in the cho case in particular, people who don’t uderstand psychosis will think that what they saw was cho’s ‘real’
personality-which is no more true than “Neo” was Keanu Reeves real personality. what cho ‘compiled’ was as fictional as his plays. cho showed us what he WANTED to be, but was unable to achieve through the usual channels because of his illness. so all this does is create confusion and fear-the claasic role of yellow journalism.
be well/ted

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