Who Will Pay the Messengers?
Q&A
Silver responding to Larry Grossman’s skepticism – other countries have made Internet access accessible. We just need to copy other successful political movements to make this happen.
I cannot help but agree with with Larry Grossman. Ellen Goodman believes that the case just has to be made. But the reality is that the [...]
Who Will Pay the Messengers?
Lawrence Grossman – Digital Promise Project
Creative Destruction – following up on Paul Bass’s presentation from the last panel
We have heard about the trouble that the news industry is in, the fact of the matter is that we are living through the creative destruction of a $50 billion industry.
The Web is killing off the news media [...]
Who Will Pay the Messengers?
Laura Walker – General Manager – WNYC, New York
Wins the prize with the first reference to the Kindle.
Describing her subway ride in NYC where only five people were reading a paper newspaper, and three of those were the free am newspapers.
Public Media must aim to preserve local democracy.
3 Specific Areas of focus in the journalistic [...]
Who Will Pay the Messengers?
Josh Silver – Executive Director of Free Press (organization has been around for 7 years)
Involve the public in very important public policy debates – commercial media is abysmal
The reliance on coveted advertisers can skew the content and get them to shy away from some very important topics.
Reference to Vanity Fair article that Reality programming has [...]
Who will pay the messengers?
Public Broadcasting Act of 1967
“that constitute a source of alternative sources for all . . .”
ACCESS to information and networks
OUTREACH to underserved communities
SERVICE public with information
What should public media become given:
technological convergence; information abundance; new publics; participatory capabilities
The media no longer can just reach out but others also have to (and can) reach in
The case [...]
Who Will Pay the Messengers
LIVE BLOGGING (EXCUSE THE TYPOS)
Ellen Goodman – Rutgers University Law School
Public Media, from Broadcast to Broadband
What is the purpose of public broadcasting?
Original vision of 1967 Public Broadcasting Act – very contemporary, ahead of its time – universal service in every community and citizen engagement in every community
Publicly Owned and Operated Media
LIVE BLOGGING (EXCUSE THE TYPOS)
Ellen Goodman – Rutgers University Law School
Public Media, from Broadcast to Broadband
What is the purpose of public broadcasting?
Original vision of 1967 Public Broadcasting Act – very contemporary, ahead of its time – universal service in every community and citizen engagement in every community
Congress gets in on the action
Anyone who has worked in an office on Capitol Hill knows how much the elected members value the “press.” The small staffs inevitably include some combination of Communications Director, Press Secretary, and lowly, underpaid Press Assistant. Thus it hardly comes as a surprise that members of Congress are waking up to the [...]
