In June of 2008 I attended AlwaysOn’s OnHollywood conference, primarily for the part of the program dealing with online journalism. In one panel discussion, the moderator asked several CEOs of online news services whether “new media”, including bloggers and the 24-hour news cycle, had caused a deterioration in journalistic ethics. The moderator hypothesized that, in the old days, the big, respected newspaper in each city was expected to communicate the objective truth in its news pages, even if it might offend large advertisers or large numbers of subscribers. One panelist called BS on that premise, saying there has never been such a thing as objective journalism. Even if reporters didn’t allow financial considerations to impact their reporting, said the panelist, the stories that were assigned to the journalists and the news agenda of the paper was impacted by financial considerations. [click to continue…]
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