{"id":1704,"date":"2019-04-07T18:45:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T18:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2019-04-07T18:45:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T18:45:35","slug":"jay-rosens-unhappy-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2019\/04\/07\/jay-rosens-unhappy-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Media theorist Jay Rosen’s forlorn list"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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A current list of my top problems in pressthink, April 2019. <\/a> Updated from time to time. Ranked by urgency.
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1. Absent some kind of creative intervention<\/a>, 2020 campaign coverage looks like it will be the same as it ever was. Who\u2019s ahead? What\u2019s it gonna take to win? The debacle in 2016 has not brought forth any dramatic shift in approach. The \u201csavvy style\u201d remains in place<\/a>. <\/a><\/p>

2. The Correspondent,<\/a> with which I am publicly identified<\/a>, met its crowd funding goals and now has to deliver on these principles<\/a>. That will not be easy. <\/a><\/p>

3. With his hate campaign<\/a> against journalists, Trump has been successful is isolating about a third of the electorate in an information loop of its own. These are people beyond the reach of journalism, and immune to its discoveries. Trump is their primary source of information about Trump. The existence of a group this size shows that de-legitimizing the news media works. The fact that it works means we will see more of it. <\/a><\/p>

4. Fox News is merging<\/em> with the Trump government in a combination unseen before. We don\u2019t know what that combined thing<\/a> is, or even how to talk about it. The common shorthand is \u201cstate media.\u201d But that\u2019s only half the picture. It\u2019s true that Fox is a propaganda network. But it\u2019s also true that the Trump government is a cable channel\u2014 with nukes. <\/a><\/p>

5. Around the world, so called populist movements are incorporating media hate<\/a> into their ideology\u2014 and replicating. No one knows how to stop or even slow this. <\/a><\/p>

6. Now in its 15th year, the business model crisis in journalism is still unsolved. (But at least we know that except in rare cases digital advertising is not going to be the answer.) <\/a><\/p>

7. Membership models in news need to be participatory<\/em> to work, but we\u2019re behind in our understanding of how to make that happen. With ad-supported media, we know what the social contract is. And we know how it works with subscription. For membership, we do not know what that contract is. <\/a><\/p>

8. The harder I work on some these problems (1, 3, 4, and 5 especially\u2026) the more cynical I get. The more cynical I get, the harder it is to believe that any of this work matters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Jay’s #8 is truly shocking to me. I have faith that his work really does matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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