Wolf Blitzer, talking on CNN’s Situation Room (a show that runs 3-6 p.m.), stated today: “I’m a newsman; it’s my job to try to make the news.” This comment, I believe, highlights the very problem with the media today.
His job isn’t to make news, it is to report it, prioritize it, and analyze it coherently in a way that contributes to the national discussion on the news. If more media did that, more people could turn to the Situation Room, rather than Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show, for their updates.
On a side note, the Situation Room does make interesting use of blogs. In covering the smog problem in
Phrase just learned in the last 45 seconds: blog smog (meaning: information haze). Use it wisely, dear readers.
No comments:
Post a Comment