Too much information! Journalism’s battle for relevance
November 26, 2008 · Filed Under Business Bytes
The flood of news created by the production bias of the Internet could, in the end, point to a new role for journalistic institutions, says Bree Nordenson in CJR.
The future of news depends on the willingness of journalistic organizations to adjust to the new ecology and new economy of information in the digital age. “I think in some ways, we need a better metaphor,” says Delli Carpini. “The gatekeeping metaphor worked pretty well in the twentieth century, but maybe what news organizations should be now is not gatekeepers so much as guides. You don’t want gatekeepers that can say you can get this and you can’t get that. You want people who can guide you through all this stuff.”
