“News stories on the Web seem to be becoming the equivalent of the CDOs, those weird financial instruments that brought down the banking system, where many mortgages are sliced up and put back together. You read a story and find that it has a little bit of New York Times reporting in it, perhaps a little bit of Los Angeles Times reporting, plus a little bit of gossip, and then a little bit of something that someone made up. Underneath there is a response by a blogger that seems interesting, but you don’t know if the blogger has actually been paid to write it by a big corporation or if it’s what the author really thinks.” – James Truman
For tiden læser jeg bogen Designing Media af Bill Moggridge (fra IDEO, kendt for Designing Interactions). Det er en interview-bog, og allerede de første par kapitler er aldeles inspirerende. Ovenstående citat er fra et interview med James Truman, der har været chef for alle Conde Nasts magasin-udgivelser (bl.a. Wired, New Yorker & Vanity Fair). Citatet minder mig om en anden fremragende bog om mediernes skæbne – Flat Earth News af Nick Davies, som jeg læste for et par år siden. Det er en nådesløs skildring af mange mediers arbejdsvilkår, og hvad de fører til af copy-paste-journalistik. Begge bøger kan anbefales!
Bogens website er fyldt med video-interviews, og indholdet kan downloades gratis som PDF’er, hvis man skulle ønske det.
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