Comment: Coogeechris’ post April 15, 2009
Posted by loumacs in online journalism.trackback
A post by Chris Murphy titled citizens or customers notes how Googlism is taking over.
News is very often information people don’t like or find hard to digest. It is not about adding sugar to make a product more marketable or palatable. It is clear that a viable business model is needed for News organisations to continue but by the way Schmidt talks about ‘The future of news’, and ‘what your readers/consumers want’. it is clear that he knows nothing about journalism and plenty about making money and covering his backside with a team of lawyers from school B. When customers become more important than citizens it will be a sad day. If companies like Google start tailoring news to suit ‘consumers’ for profit, then news will die and nothing but gossip, rumour and celebrity rubbish will remain.
Nick Clark wrote an article for The Independent, following the Newspaper Association’s Conference last week.
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