We will set rules, not you: US media tells Trump

[V.Balasubramani]

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[h=1]The fourth pillar committing 'fearless reporting'…[/h][h=1]We will set rules, not you: US media tells Trump[/h]"It is, after all, our airtime and column inches that you are seeking to influence. We, not you, decide how best to serve our readers, listeners, and viewers. So think of what follows as a backgrounder on what to expect from us over the next four years," said US journalists in the letter published in Columbia Journalism Review, an American magazine for professional journalists published by the Columbia University.

Acknowledging that the American Press Corps and the US President-elect don't get along well, the letter said: "It will come as no surprise to you that we see the relationship as strained."

Observing that Trump may not allow journalists access to cover his administration, the letter further states: "We are very good at finding alternative ways to get information... Some of the best reporting during the campaign came from news organisations that were banned from your rallies. Telling reporters that they won't get access to something isn't what we'd prefer, but it's a challenge we relish."

"You've banned news organisations from covering you. You've taken to Twitter to taunt and threaten individual reporters and encouraged your supporters to do the same. You've advocated for looser libel laws and threatened numerous lawsuits of your own, none of which has materialized," the letter read.

"But while you have every right to decide your ground rules for engaging with the press, we have some, too."
The Corps, in the letter, also warned Trump over tweeting something that is "demonstrably wrong" and said: "When you or your surrogates say or tweet something that is demonstrably wrong, we will say so, repeatedly. Facts are what we do, and we have no obligation to repeat false assertions."

The letter further stated that US journalists will set higher standards for themselves than ever before.

Read more at: http://www.theweek.in/news/world/we-will-set-rules-not-you-us-media-tells-trump.html

 

[krish44]

Our press can learn about press freedom from US journalists.

There is hardly any freedom of the press in india.

It mostly reflects the views of the newspaper owner or a political party .

 

[V.Balasubramani]

Our press can learn about press freedom from US journalists.

There is hardly any freedom of the press in india.

It mostly reflects the views of the newspaper owner or a political party .

May be a knee jerk response....

This is the reported history...
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The history of paid news is nearly as old as news itself. In the 19th century, newspapers in the US used to publish “reading notices”, which were advertisements presented as news. Barring a few upright owners and editors, most newspapers were happy to run marketing campaigns disguised as news articles. One of the newspapers endorsed these “reading notices”, making a case that the targeted audience for a reading notice “is insidious, attractive and interesting. Appearing as it does in a semi-news way, it will be read and thoroughly considered, because it carries the endorsement of the medium in which it is published”.

The growth in actual advertisements and the rise of a new kind of rule-based journalism in the US eventually put an end to this practice. But the recent decline in ad revenues has led many media houses to reconsider the idea of reading notices, fashionably rebranded as “native advertising”.

Native advertising is very much the reading notices of the 21st century—ads are presented in a way that readers assume that they are part of the actual content. Such content, which British humourist John Oliver called “repurposed bovine waste”, is a classic case of a market for lemons; readers cannot distinguish between actual news and the ad.

Source http://www.livemint.com/Sundayapp/9...s-and-the-economics-of-the-news-industry.html