“…a dope pusher’s argument.”

 

“Is news what the public is interested in

     or what’s in the public interest?…

This business of giving people what they want

     is a dope pusher’s argument.

News is something people don’t know they’re interested in

     until they hear about it.

The job of a journalist is to take what’s important

     and make it interesting.”

 

from -30- The Collapse of the Great American Newspaper

Charles M. Madigan, ed.

Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2007

p. 121

Too much of the media is focused on making money by entertaining everyone—

it’s not about journalism any more.

Mostly, if you want news, you have to search for it.

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