Jay Rosen: Journalists as The Great Explainers

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http://www.abc.net.au/tv/bigideas/stories/2010/09/06/3003881.htm

As audiences and consumers of the news become increasingly wary of the journalists and media outlets, academic and blogger Jay Rosen calls for a rethink of the underlying methods of news production.

He claims news has become so incremental and fluid that audiences lack the necessary background knowledge to make sense of the information they are receiving. Rosen also notes that journalists have become captives of deadlines and are forgoing co