The book is the brainchild of a commodore, he was a reporter for the indianapolis hartford 25 years, hes a prolific author in retirement and aid had continued the manuscript and brought in jim kuyper and me toward the end of things to bring adifferent perspective. But the book is kind of the brush of the history of journalism, theres a nice chapter on the history of journalism but the basic idea is you have these factors that transformed journalism in the past 65 years so we had the rise of corporate ownership in about 1946, we had the rise of the internet, we had the rise of the world wide web. That takes almost everything and allowed individuals to participate and then we had Global Economic collapse during 2007 and along with that we had our smart phone apps and social media. Youve got the perfect storm where you havecorporate ownership of the media , declining returns because of competition and economic issues. And you have a result, a flood of information and bad Economic Times wh
Get host people focus on the appearance as well and so now you have democrats botch that often going on fox and republicans vow that often going on. Guest the media host cnn is struggling to find its way. Guest and as a reporter who really beliefs in this idea of the facts in journalism and this notion that you can ask questions and wherever the story takes you youre not trying to advance one side or the other i think unfortunately one of the legacies is that journalism is now seen as a way to advance whatever part of the agenda is on the left and the right and i hope perhaps my book will open peoples eyes tpeoples eyes to e encourage people to want to have more of a central clearinghouse to less than the data then they arent supposed to be advancing one side or the other. Host thank you very much gabriel sherman. Guest thank you for having me. The 24th news cycle that john referred to as facilitated in part by the internet. When the original book prodigal press was written the interne
The 24th news cycle that john referred to as facilitated in part by the internet. When the original book prodigal press was written the internet was nearly gleaned in al gores eye at that time but since then the internet is driving what happens in the news cycle. We felt like it was due for an update and start working on this book about three years ago. It was just published in september. We have been delighted by the reception of the book so far and what im going to do today is to share with you some of the ideas that are in this book. I want to talk a little bit about world news crew just to give you an idea of who we are even though john did a great job of setting me up on that score and also i want to be really clear that my purpose today is not to bash the Mainstream Media. I do not in any way shape or form consider the Mainstream Media or what some people call the legacy media as the enemy. I do believe however that we are and the midst of a pathological media culture and some of