Jay Rosen
Jay Rosen
Jay Rosenis a media critic, writer, and a professor of journalism at New York University...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth5 May 1956
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Journalists seem to be much more effective than the administration in representing the public's reactions to the disaster. Clueless federal officials seem to know less about what is happening than the journalists do, and sometimes less than an average TV viewer. This tips the balance of power toward the press, which is why we see such aggressive questioning and on-air criticism close to jeering.
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Not only is the Times not operating properly, it's unable to say to readers: here's why we're not.
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It's striking that the lessons of their own self-study after Jayson Blair seemed to evaporate.
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What The Post is doing today is a recognition that the balance of power has shifted to users who can choose the way they receive news . . . that they're not entirely in charge of how people get their news anymore.