Internet muuttaa journalismin pelisääntöjä monella tapaa, mitä olen tässä blogissa useaan otteeseen tuonut esille. Yksi muutoksen kohteista on käsitys siitä mikä on uutinen ja siitä kuka määrittää mikä nousee niin uutisarvoiseksi, että media kiinnostuu siitä. PressThinkin Jay Rosen on kirjoittanut hyvän analyysin aiheesta Downing Street Memon ympärille.
News judgment used to be king. If the press ruled
against you, you just weren’t news. But if you weren’t news how would
anyone know enough about you to contest the ruling? Today, the World
Wide Web is the sovereign force, and journalists live and work
according to its rules.
…..
I don’t think the press has learned how to deal
yet with "power shapes truth," or the extreme contempt for
reason-giving the Bush Administration has shown on matters of war and
peace. For example, in judging whether a story deserves further play
the press will ask,
"were the facts in it previously reported?" (a news test) rather than
asking: having the facts in it been successfully denied at the top?
(which is a power-shapes-truth question.) Ultimately this confusion
helps explain the original judgment that the memo was not news, and the success of the appeal.
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