{"id":2070,"date":"2012-04-04T10:24:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T14:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=2070"},"modified":"2012-04-04T10:24:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T14:24:44","slug":"news-without-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/04\/04\/news-without-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"News without journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2071\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/04\/04\/news-without-journalism\/presshat\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2071\" title=\"presshat\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/04\/presshat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>In a Salon.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/04\/02\/a_journalism_free_news_media\/?source=newsletter\">article<\/a>, David Sirota makes the case that we are on the verge of having\u00a0 journalism-free news and media industries. What does this mean? Well, here&#8217;s an example from the piece:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Explaining recent decisions by his news organization to hire people  like Ed Schultz, Al Sharpton, Melissa Harris-Perry, Joe Scarborough and  others with zero experience in journalism, MSNBC\u2019s Phil Griffin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/features\/media\/article1214749.ece\" target=\"_blank\">summed up the new zeitgeist<\/a> in a quote that could be the epitaph on journalism\u2019s tombstone (emphasis added):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;I\u2019m sorry, <strong>I don\u2019t care about journalists<\/strong>\u2026I want fair-minded, smart people who understand the world and can interpret it\u2026If they\u2019re journalists, great. <strong>This notion that you somehow you have to have done something to earn so-called journalists\u2019 credentials?<\/strong> Stop.&#8217; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Take a moment or two to read the article and let me know what you think.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Salon.com article, David Sirota makes the case that we are on the verge [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[30,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}