Bloggers Recall Press Abuses
Posted on July 11, 2006
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I have a soft spot for Ohmynews, the citizen journalism project that began in Korea.
Today one citizen journalist recalled the major news stories that really broke the patience of intelligent Americans in the 1990s. From Bobbitt to Lewinsky via O.J. Simpson.
Stories where the press seemed intent on feeding the murkier elements of public prurience.
It’s worth a recall becuase we are in the middle of a transition towards a new media landscape where we assume that technology alone is driving change forward.
My contention, repeatedly, has been that the public lost faith with the morality that informed mainstream media over the past fifteen years. While the US media fed a prurient section of the public, in the USA and Britain journalists started making up stories - it brought disgrace to august instutions like the New York Times and to the UK’s Carlton TV.
“The icing on the proverbial cake had to be the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky affair that followed in the wake of the OJ trial. “, says an Ohmynews writer. “The theater of the absurd was in full swing as an American President was nearly impeached over a completely overblown non-issue. And the professional media was there to discuss the finer details of presidential deposits on intern dresses.”
Remembering the 90s Media Scandals - OhmyNews International
He has a point.Comments
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