Times' mirror
I can't recall seeing a newspaper do what I'm about to describe, but why not?
Here's a Times story from Oct. 23, 1999:
A NEW FINANCIAL ERA: THE OVERVIEW; ACCORD REACHED ON LIFTING OF DEPRESSION-ERA BARRIERS AMONG FINANCIAL INDUSTRIES
The Clinton Administration and top Republican lawmakers reached an agreement early today to overhaul the financial system, repealing Depression-era laws that have restricted the banking, securities and insurance industries from expanding into one another's businesses.
The Times should run that story again. Verbatim, page 1. Make itself, its own understanding of that event, the news. Publish the analyses offered by people with a decade's hindsight. And keep this up until someone sorts out what exactly happened - not just the event, but the Times's coverage of it, and the understanding of that coverage then, and now.
Labels: commodification of news media, news, The New York Times
posted by Tom Matrullo at Monday, March 23, 2009
5 Comments:
Good idea, but that would be real journalism, not selling ad space and subscriptions.
It would help if the profession looked beyond the next day's news for a notion of what news is. Like, don't they know they might have more to offer?
Like, don't they know they might have more to offer?
That's the real pity in this era. Journalism used to be an (more) honourable profession (and of course I don't want to malign those who are sill trying).
No question some are trying. The question is, trying what?
You made me chuckle out loud. Thanks.
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