The News about News Provision
Robert G. Picard, Ph.D is director of the Media Management and Transformation Centre at, Jönköping University in,Sweden. The following is an excerpt and link to his paper, “Tremors, Structural Damage and Some Casualties, but No Cataclysm: The News about News Provision,” delivered at the Federal Trade Commission’s “News Media Workshop” held on December 1 and 2, 2009:
During the past decade, the rhetoric about news provision in the United States has become increasingly steeped in the discourse of disaster. Journalists and commentators have spoken of wholesale destruction and devastation caused by crippling changes that have shattered the industry’s business model and left a wounded democracy without means to survive. The language has become increasingly desperate and plaintive.