{"id":32567,"date":"2015-08-31T03:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T07:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=32567"},"modified":"2015-08-30T16:19:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T20:19:49","slug":"newspapers-in-the-21st-century-what-are-they-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/08\/31\/newspapers-in-the-21st-century-what-are-they-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Newspapers in the 21st century &#8211; what are they for?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/full-comment\/colby-cosh-perhaps-we-should-be-sickened-when-sickening-things-happen\" target=\"_blank\">Colby Cosh<\/a> on the confusion even among newspaper folks themselves on their real role in today&#8217;s society:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But the newspaper is part of a different ecosystem now. A front page is a late contribution to an ongoing conversation in a way it was not in 1963, or even 2003. Editors making decisions about what images to use had heard Alison Parker\u2019s screams; they knew many readers had heard them. That non-graphic touch made the photo of Parker with the killer\u2019s weapon in the foreground \u201cgraphic\u201d \u2014 too graphic for the proverbial breakfast table. (Although I would remind sensitive editors and media critics that the \u201cbreakfast table\u201d is an incredibly outmoded way of thinking about our jobs, much like the idea that we are presenting news in a utilitarian, isolated way to readers who haven\u2019t heard it.)<\/p>\n<p>The truth is that the minds of most newspaper creators and editors are not completely clear about what these strange flat objects are good for in the year 2015. The <em>New York Daily News<\/em>, which does know what it is for, was unflinching in its front-page treatment of the WDBJ shooting. It caught immediate hell, but its confidence in its mission is a virtue. The paper knows that it exists partly because when something happens, New Yorkers can\u2019t wait to see what those crazy-ass bastards in the tabloids will do with it.<\/p>\n<p>Does the newspaper do harm with its relative sensationalism? It seems impossible to know. But it is certainly not the infliction of harm that critics and second-guessers fear most: it is the giving of offence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colby Cosh on the confusion even among newspaper folks themselves on their real role in today&#8217;s society: But the newspaper is part of a different ecosystem now. A front page is a late contribution to an ongoing conversation in a way it was not in 1963, or even 2003. Editors making decisions about what images [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,28,13],"tags":[213,238],"class_list":["post-32567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-media","category-usa","tag-newspapers","tag-offensensitivity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8th","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32568,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32567\/revisions\/32568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}