between information and fastfood ufficistampa disguised as editors, reliability and quality of information is revealed for what it is in a much acclaimed research into everyday English "by quality ". Just imagine what would be out doing an investigation on our own newspapers. From lsdi.it
A search for 'Cardiff University found that' s 80% of articles in newspapers as the UK are predominantly made recycling agency news or press releases - and that some journalists now produce at least three times more material than they did 20 years ago
From journalism to "churnalism, mass production of ignorance
Almost 's 80 % of articles published in national quality newspapers in the UK are largely made of recycled news agency or press releases. And 'one of the results of a recent survey conducted by the Department of Journalism' s University of Cardiff, that - among the 'other - some of Fleet Street journalists currently producing at least three times more than they did 20 years ago.
Research - said an article on Press.gazette.com - noted that most of the services contained in the British national newspapers are made mostly with materials supplied by Press offices or agencies. In particular, these proportions would be: The Times, 69 percent, The Daily Telegraph, 68 per cent, Daily Mail, 66, The Independent, 65, and The Guardian, 52 per percent.
excoriate what he calls "churnalism *, Nik Davies, an expert on the media Guardian, says:" Now more than ever, we are involved in a mass production of ignorance because the corporations and the directors cut the workforce, increased our pace of work and we have definitely stuck to our desk. "
The Telegraph, Guardian and Times did not want to comment on the research, while PressGazette sought reactions in the editorial offices of the Daily Mail 's Independent that however, reports on Nicolas Kayser-Bril' Observatoire des médias were like, 'Ah, but we do not, we do not like that, maybe others. "
The "bit of journalism that makes the press," said Kaiser still-Bril, "is derived from the strong increase in the number of articles that the journalist has to produce. Result: qualified staff gets paid to do copy-and-paste and produce mediocre products. So we all lose: the journalists, who no longer have the time to do their real work and publishers who find themselves with tons of unsold goods. "
Once again this example shows that the problem of the press is not limited to the Internet. The web has simply put an end to 'oligopoly that policyholders undue profit margins. 'S arrival in the online competition puts the traditional media in front of their contradictions. The content they produce is simply not competitive.
Only problem: to change the model and mentality (something that seems to take long, according to this testimony by Howard Owens ) it takes money. A lot of money. The British newspapers still do a little ', given that profit rates are still close to 10%. In France - concluded Kaiser-Bril - the task promises to be more difficult. And we in Italy?
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* From "churn out ", "produce in large quantity ". See also "Churnalism" in Freeman, and "The Difference Between Journalism and churnalism" (Guardian).
- Research (eng) can be downloaded here : http://www.cf.ac.uk/jomec/library/doc_lib/Quality_Independence_British_Journalism.pdf
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