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21 Sep 09
Acorn in the Age of ‘Post-Journalism’
The New York Times' Idea of the Day blog worries about post-journalistic ethics as they connect to the recent scandal over hidden-camera recordings of ACORN workers capture by amateurs with a decidedly conservative bent.
The Dawn of Post-Journalism
The New York Observer supposes that post-journalism means the death of the objective observer and the birth of the writer as a worker.
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No doubt many of them will continue writing, but in a new style—what I call “post-journalism.” No longer “objective observers,” they will be writers-as-workers. This will lead to a rebirth of American reporting.
Post-journalism
The National Review talks about entering a post-journalism age in this editorial from immediately after Obama's presidential election in 2008.
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In short, we live now in the Age of Post-Journalism. All that was before is now over, as this generation of journalists voluntarily destroyed the hallowed notion of objectivity and they will have no idea quite how to put Humpty-Dumpty back together again.
20 Sep 09
The Story Behind the Story
The Atlantic's Mark Bowden tells a tale of the interested voices who power today's increasingly "post-journalism" age.
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In this post-journalistic world, the model for all national debate becomes the trial, where adversaries face off, representing opposing points of view. We accept the harshness of this process because the consequences in a courtroom are so stark; trials are about assigning guilt or responsibility for harm. There is very little wiggle room in such a confrontation, very little room for compromise—only innocence or degrees of guilt or responsibility. But isn’t this model unduly harsh for political debate? Isn’t there, in fact, middle ground in most public disputes? Isn’t the art of politics finding that middle ground, weighing the public good against factional priorities? Without journalism, the public good is viewed only through a partisan lens, and politics becomes blood sport.
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In a post-journalistic society, there is no disinterested voice. There are only the winning side and the losing side.
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