[LINK] Open publishing strike - editorial board resigns

[Tom Worthington]

On 01/04/13 16:42, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:

> ... A quality newspaper presents a 'news package' gestalt ...

Reading using a news aggregator, such as Google News, shows the typical 
newspaper is part of a media gestalt. For each news topic, there are 
usually dozens, some times thousands, of news stories listed about the 
same event, all presenting the same news, many using exactly the same 
words. This is more to do with commercial pressures to minimize costs, 
than a plot to control what we think.

But the media do follow as a pack any new story. When someone from radio 
or TV calls to interview me, it is usually based on something they read 
in a newspaper, not their own research.


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