The TweetGeist on PEJ's Baltimore study: Who makes the news?

By Scott Rosenberg Jan 11, 2010 11:56am

The Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism studied a week's worth of news production in Baltimore and concluded:

Much of the "news" people receive contains no original reporting. Fully eight out of ten stories studied simply repeated or repackaged previously published information.

And of the stories that did contain new information nearly all, 95%, came from traditional media—most of them newspapers. These stories then tended to set the narrative agenda for most other media outlets.

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The Twitter discussion:

@mathewi I believe that newspapers still create the majority of news, but it's also about reaching people with that news

@rafatali Lame MSM news triumphalism study will be repeated on end this wk, by, who else, MSM

@jayrosen_nyu There will be much dining out. I think the study is bait, which I'm not about to take. But it does makes me smile.

yelvington PEJ study should challenge: Make your news a "discovery" mechanism, or sink into the morass of "commodity news" and repetition.

@yelvington .@Chanders: PEJ study http://bit.ly/8NqMSA will make paper editors feel warm+fuzzy when they should be shaken by gov't origin angle.

@chanders .@yelvington they should also be shaken by finding that 80+% of stories add *no* new info

@agahran Naturally, the LA Times is playing the flawed PEJ study to make it look like bloggers just leech off pro journos: http://bit.ly/4Vk0mc D'oh!

Jeff Jarvis's reaction: "No shit."

it sets up a strawman and then lights the match: Do blogs give us most of our news? No, they don’t. Well, then, they must be worthless, eh? We’ll be lost without big, old media, won’t we? Just what we need. (Though to the study’s immense credit, it also notes how much of local news is repetitive and does not include original reporting.) “This study does suggest that if newspapers were to disappear, what would be left to aggregate?” Tom Rosenstiel, director of the PEJ, told the AP. There’s the strawman: Without papers, we’ll be without news. No, we at CUNY believe the market will deliver it more efficiently and perhaps — perhaps — more effectively. It may not be news as those papers defined it.

In Gawker, Ravi Somaiya argued that "everyone is right":

Web journalism, in general, would benefit enormously from more, and better, original reporting. Our model is iterative -- we publish a story as it develops, updating it as more facts come to light. Which is absolutely necessary....[but] does not mean we shouldn't pick up the phone or knock on doors if the story calls for it.

Newspapers, meanwhile, now...have no excuse for creakily fumbling a news story because new information came to light after deadline. They have no excuse for tired trend pieces on things that came and went across blogs three weeks ago.

David Carr's clever "metapost", "Reporting on a Scarcity of Reporting Without Reporting":

Much of the news blogging consists of annotating the reporting of others. This post will be no different.

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