http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/ PressThink: Ghost of Democracy in the Media Machine, by Jay Rosen. en-us 2010-08-15T10:45:10-05:00 http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2010/08/15/citizens_agenda.html The idea is to learn from voters what those voters want the campaign to be about, and what they need to hear from the candidates to make a smart decision. So you go out and ask them: "what do you want the candidates to be discussing as they compete for votes in this year's election?" Jay Rosen 2010-08-15T10:45:10-05:00 http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2010/07/26/wikileaks_afghan.html "In media history up to now, the press is free to report on what the powerful wish to keep secret because the laws of a given nation protect it. But Wikileaks is able to report on what the powerful wish to keep secret because the logic of the Internet permits it. This is new." Jay Rosen 2010-07-26T01:31:43-05:00 http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2010/07/07/obj_persuasion.html "Reporting can be trusted if it is cured of opinion. Reporting can be trusted if it is dusted with opinion. Or even completely interwoven with opinion. It can lead to conclusions. Or the conclusions can be left to others." Jay Rosen 2010-07-07T14:14:24-05:00 http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2010/06/24/an_openthekimon.html "Think about what the Politico is saying: an experienced beat reporter would probably not want to 'burn bridges' with key sources by telling the world what happens when those sources let their guard down." Jay Rosen 2010-06-24T01:48:45-05:00 http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2010/06/22/reply_ambinder.html "If your job is to make the case, win the negotiations, decide what the community should do, or maintain morale, that is one kind of work. If your job is to tell people what's going on, and equip them to participate without illusions, that is a very different kind of work." Jay Rosen 2010-06-22T01:02:23-05:00 http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2010/06/14/ideology_press.html That it's easy to describe the ideology of the press is a point on which the left, the right and the profession of journalism converge. I disagree. I think it's tricky. So tricky, I've had to invent my own language for discussing it. Jay Rosen 2010-06-14T18:26:35-05:00 http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2010/03/31/what_cnn_should.html A media beat reporter asked me if I had any advice for CNN about what to do in prime-time. Just so happens I do. Ditch the View from Nowhere but don't go aping your rivals. Here's my alt line-up for CNN from 7 to 11 pm. Jay Rosen 2010-03-31T13:57:12-05:00 http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2010/03/17/backchannel.html The bar's been raised. Use of the backchannel--years ago it was IRC, today it's Twitter--lets the audience compare notes and pool their dissatisfaction if the program misfires. Here's what we did to avoid that at SXSW. Jay Rosen 2010-03-17T23:17:56-05:00 http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2010/03/07/what_i_plan_to.html These are my notes. You can help advance the discussion by reading them over and commenting. Jay Rosen 2010-03-07T17:00:47-05:00 http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2010/02/23/the_local.html "Look: Not everyone is going to be thrilled that NYU is doing this with the New York Times. We'll have to take those problems on, not as classroom abstractions but civil transactions with the people who live and work here. You know what? It's going to be messy and hard, which is to say real." Jay Rosen 2010-02-23T01:01:46-05:00 http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2010/02/21/innocence.html "The quest for innocence means the desire to be manifestly agenda-less and thus 'prove' in the way you describe things that journalism is not an ideological trade. But this can get in the way of describing things! What's lost is that sense of reality Isaiah Berlin talked about..." Jay Rosen 2010-02-21T17:19:40-05:00 http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2009/04/12/hesaid_shesaid.html Any good blogger, competing journalist or alert press critic can spot and publicize false balance and the lame acceptance of fact-free spin. Do users really want to be left helpless in sorting out who's faking it more? The he said, she said form says they do, but I say decline has set in. Jay Rosen 2009-04-12T11:46:59-05:00 http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2009/03/30/huffpost_fnd.html report once, run anywhere."]]> Jay Rosen 2009-03-30T01:37:47-05:00 http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2009/03/26/flying_seminar.html Thinking the Unthinkable. Here's my best-of from a month of deep think as people came to terms with the collapse of the newspaper model, and tried looking ahead. I know these twelve links work. I tested them on Twitter.]]> Jay Rosen 2009-03-26T01:08:54-05:00 http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2009/02/06/took_moyers.html I was a guest on Bill Moyers Journal (PBS, Feb. 6) along with Salon's Glenn Greenwald. We talked about pundits and reporters as an establishment institution, and whether Obama can be a disruptive force. Jay Rosen 2009-02-06T23:57:11-05:00