JRN185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Critical Inquiry, Daily Express

• School: Pima Community College
• Department: Journalism
• Course: JRN185
• Professor: Lancaster

Document Summary

Journalism itself is more important than where its goods are distributed. Inability to differentiate between the two is one of the problems of today"s media discourse. Media owners and managements become with the publishing process and the variety of opportunities new technology provide that conversation about how and when to publish has drowned out the more critical issue of what to publish. Instead of news and information, the trendy use of the generic word "material" has a meaning that goes beyond semantine. Content is simply what fills the room. Use it to characterize the journalism products is to devalue the critical inquiry and research spirit and practice that is the hallmark of good journalism. The discussion about the future of newspapers and their place in a converged digital, multi-platform media environment is of great importance and interest. Crucial in a business sense, because they will not publish unless publishers make money. Newspaper publishers realized they had to do something.