Jarvis argues that the changes in the nature of news means that the topic is the predominant factor in attrcating the reader and not the story itself.
According to Jeff
The story was all we had before — it’s what would fit onto a newspaper page or into a broadcast show. But a discrete and serial series of articles over days cannot adequately cover the complex stories going on now nor can they properly inform the public. There’s too much repetition. Too little explanation. The knowledge is not cumulative. Each instance is necessarily shallow. And when more big stories come — as they have lately! — in scarce time and space and with scarce resources, each becomes even shallower. We never catch up, we never get smarter. Articles perpetuate a Ground Hog Day kind of journalism.
Interestly I have a project to do to be handed in at 4.00pm on Friday.The project is to pick four news stories running this week that can be expanded into a feature/backgrounder that would appear in a Sunday paper(in this case I am picking the Observer)
With the news dominated by financial meltdown at the moment it will be difficult to steer away from the topic but one idea I have got,I culled from the World at One wheere the Brazilian president was critising the Western economies over what the meltdown will do to developing countries.
Maybe a feature on how the developing countries will be harmed by the crisis? Any ideas anyone?
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