Comments on: Nick Davies: Flat earth news http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/2009/07/nick-davies-flat-earth-news/ The inside track since 2003 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:17:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jonathan Walker http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/2009/07/nick-davies-flat-earth-news/comment-page-1/#comment-78712 Jonathan Walker Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:25:20 +0000 http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/?p=3533#comment-78712 I'm not sure Davies actually says journalists are lazy - almost the opposite, that they are under so much pressure to churn out material quickly that they just don't have time to do a better job. It's a good book, but there's a tendency for people to read it and assume that every journalist spends every hour just re-writing press releases or stories from other sources, which is not the case. It also warns that the increasing importance of the internet as a method of distributing news has made the problem worse. I’m not sure Davies actually says journalists are lazy – almost the opposite, that they are under so much pressure to churn out material quickly that they just don’t have time to do a better job.

It’s a good book, but there’s a tendency for people to read it and assume that every journalist spends every hour just re-writing press releases or stories from other sources, which is not the case.

It also warns that the increasing importance of the internet as a method of distributing news has made the problem worse.

]]> By: Dave Briggs http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/2009/07/nick-davies-flat-earth-news/comment-page-1/#comment-78155 Dave Briggs Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:04:50 +0000 http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/?p=3533#comment-78155 Flat Earth News is a good read, but in the end feels a tad empty and pointless: journalists in quite often lazy scandal! Who knew? ;-) Flat Earth News is a good read, but in the end feels a tad empty and pointless: journalists in quite often lazy scandal!

Who knew? ;-)

]]> By: Tom http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/2009/07/nick-davies-flat-earth-news/comment-page-1/#comment-78117 Tom Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:48:39 +0000 http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/?p=3533#comment-78117 It's an excellent book, but quite depressing to see laid bare just how terrible much of our media is. It’s an excellent book, but quite depressing to see laid bare just how terrible much of our media is.

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