Tom Rosenstiel
Tom Rosenstiel
Tom Rosenstiel is an American author, journalist, press critic and executive director of the American Press Institute. He is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Rosenstiel was founder and for 16 years director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a research organization that studies the news media and is part of the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C...
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When a president is popular, there's a tendency to describe events describing his popularity. When the numbers are falling, you use that as a lens to explain why his popularity is diminishing.
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We know from various studies that women do not consume news in the same numbers as men. These numbers suggest that one reason may be that women don't see themselves in the news as much as men. The numbers suggest that the news does not fully reflect the breadth that women now play in American culture.
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Maybe part of their brilliance is they're not as guilt-ridden about it.
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Journalists are trying to make the distinction between leaks that are political and leaks that are whistle-blowing.
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What he's saying may be good press criticism but I'm not sure it's good law.
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He looked like the king of muscle beach and he was a surfer. But he had vision. He believed that for a city to be great, it had to have a great newspaper.
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had the respect of the hard-boiled editors and investigative reporters, but he managed to thrive and triumph in the more corporate environment of today.
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While the piece hardly clarifies everything, the Times should be praised for its candor.
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What distinguishes Nightline - the heart of its appeal - is its intelligence, seriousness of purpose, integrity and its depth.
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Some Americans will be curious, but I suspect most will be wary. Some will be infuriated.
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Power is shifting from the journalist setting the agenda, to the consumer becoming their own editor - deciding what their media diet will be. We're in the fast food news culture, where you've got a huge buffet. (And) we do almost nothing in the media world to teach people what they need to know to be an intelligent consumer of news.
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Normally, the press imposes a sports template and tends to create a winner,
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This is about managing images and not public taste or human dignity.
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This is the dark side of synergy. One of the few things that people still trust about the American media, unlike media in other countries, is that you can't walk in with cash and pay for a story. That perceived integrity is a lot more valuable than any one interview.