NFL Scandal, News, the PR Department

"The purchase and sale of news reporters by powerful institutions and influential people are hardly a new phenomenon. But like all manifestations of disproportionate wealth, it's been raised to glorious new heights during the early 21st century. Not only are journalists suborned by "access" into seeing things their bidders' way--access to company CEOs, access to entertainment and sports stars, advance access to the next Apple product--but increasingly they're directly employed by the companies they're supposed to be covering objectively. We can spin it any way we want.- Dodgers PR chief Joe Jareck explains why the team set up its own online news outlet. The folly of these arrangements is now vividly on display, thanks to the travails of the National Football League. As Stefan Fatsis documents in a superb piece at Slate.com, some of the nation's most experienced and dedicated football reporters have downplayed the Ray Rice scandal in their work. Why? Because they work for NFL.com...." read more at: The NFL scandal shows why you shouldn't get your news from the PR dept. - LA Times

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