Insiders Poll: Web Has Hurt Journalism
Q: On balance, has journalism been helped more or hurt more by the rise of news consumption on the Internet?
Media Insiders (45 votes)
Helped more 33%
Hurt more 62%
Both 4%
Helped more "Smart journalists see diversified Internet news voices as an asset and online venues as an opportunity. Dumb and/or insecure journalists see them as parasitical competitors and enemies. In either case, the erosion of homogenized control over news brought about by the Internet elevates the quality of journalism in numerous ways."
Hurt more "The benefits flowing from the tremendous new availability of information have yet to adequately offset the damage that the rise of this new business model has done to the expensive, risky, labor-intensive work of gathering, editing, packaging, and delivering reliable information from places and people that are often hard to get to and unwilling to help."
Both "Journalism is helped in that good journalism finds a much wider audience thanks to the Internet while flawed journalism is more quickly exposed. But the business of journalism is hurt by the fact that now readers expect to get information for free, and good journalism costs money to produce."
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