Friday, October 8, 2010

The Hamster Wheel

Journalism today is a Hamster Wheel, according to one observer:

"The Hamster Wheel isn’t speed; it’s motion for motion’s sake. The Hamster Wheel is volume without thought. It is news panic, a lack of discipline, an inability to say no. It is copy produced to meet arbitrary productivity metrics."

That's a quote from this really entertaining article in the Columbia Journalism Review, by Dean Starkman. If you want to get a sense of why journalists (the ones who still have jobs) look so tired and can't complete their sentences, read this.

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