Hard news faces the
same kind of extinction as newspapers and magazines, the result of a dramatic
death spiral of reporting jobs and ads and the rise of the type of opinion
journalism popular two and three centuries ago, according to a new report and
analysis. "Hard news is
in danger," said a new report from the Brookings Institution. The report detailed
a fall-off in advertising revenues and employment and raised the question that
without editorial employees filtering the news, credibility will be undermined. "These trends
have left many people wondering who will collect hard news for the general
public. While the Internet world has made it possible for everyone to express
their opinion widely — whether they know anything or
not — it has also confused readers. In the absence of supposedly neutral
intermediaries such as reporters, fact-checkers, and editors, readers are
having a hard time judging the credibility of what they read," said the
report. Filling in the hard
news gap appears to be more opinion journalism.....To Read More....
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