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Bezig met laden... News Is a Verb (Library of Contemporary Thought)door Pete Hamill
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. To me, this is a fairly forgettable small book published in 1998. As the twentieth century drew to a close, in other words. Hamill begins with his account of working as a reporter and editor for several big-city newspapers, prominently the New York Daily News. He gives his view of the decline of newspapers and his thoughts on how a resurrection might be achieved. Focus on serious news, devoting more space to serious news, and eschewing vapid celebrity and entertainment piece. Give meaningful roles to women. But all is built on newspapering in 1998, 20 years ago. I sat up and took notice in the final chapter, when Hamill addressed "the celebrity virus." I quote:
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LIBRARY OF CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT "When screaming headlines turn out to be based on stories that don't support them, the tale of the boy who cried wolf gets new life. When the newspaper is filled with stupid features about celebrities at the expense of hard news, the reader feels patronized. In the process, the critical relationship of reader to newspaper is slowly undermined." --from NEWS IS A VERB NEWS IS A VERB Journalism at the End of the Twentieth Century "With the usual honorable exceptions, newspapers are getting dumber. They are increasingly filled with sensation, rumor, press-agent flackery, and bloated trivialities at the expense of significant facts. The Lewinsky affair was just a magnified version of what has been going on for some time. Newspapers emphasize drama and conflict at the expense of analysis. They cover celebrities as if reporters were a bunch of waifs with their noses pressed enviously to the windows of the rich and famous. They are parochial, square, enslaved to the conventional pieties. The worst are becoming brainless printed junk food. All across the country, in large cities and small, even the better newspapers are predictable and boring. I once heard a movie director say of a certain screenwriter: 'He aspired to mediocrity, and he succeeded.' Many newspapers are succeeding in the same way." Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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If you believe that journalism, when it is done right, is a noble profession, then Pete Hamill, who died a few days ago, should be one of your heroes. He was amazingly prolific and eclectic. He covered Vietnam from the battlefield and was one of those who disarmed Sirhan Sirhan when he assassinated Robert Kennedy. He wrote novels and art criticism, earning an honorary Ph.D. from Pratt. For most of his career, though, Hamill worked the city desks at New York City tabloids. He covered everything and even edited for a time. News Is a Verb expresses his enduring love for newspapers, even, as he says, when they break your heart. A good newspaper, he says, is a spouse, not just a short-time lover. A good newspaper, he says, requires a delicate balance between business interests and craft, and in the late 1990s, he thought that balance was being lost. Newspapers were run be men who did not understand them. Too many editors did not know the cities they covered. Newspapers were not doing a good job of speaking to the women in their audience, who bought the products of their advertisers. Nor were they doing a good job of talking to the middle- and working-class audiences that had been their mainstays. No matter the political position of the editorial page, Hamill thought that the news stories had to be balanced and aim for the truth. He was worried that papers, strapped for cash, were not covering the news as they should. Nothing Hamill says about newspapers has ceased to be true. But we should not desert them. ( )