Week 8: Framing

1.  CNN streamed the entire Chilean miner rescue, and people from all over the world were able to watch online and on tv as all 33 of the men (plus the rescue workers who went down into the mine too) were brought to the surface. Citizen journalists would not be able to do something like this. Will coverage of huge events be enough to keep the traditional journalism business alive?

2. “What most people don’t seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.” Rhett Butler says this to Scarlett when the War has just started in Gone with the Wind. Is journalism as a civilization being wrecked or re-built, and how are people profiting from the wreckage/re-building?

3. Starting in January 2011, the NY Times will charge a flat fee for unlimited access for non-subscribers of the print paper (though a few articles a month will be free). Is this what the journalism industry is forced to do? Will this work? Will this be able to sustain the industry after the heavy losses that it’s suffered?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/business/media/21times.html

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