User-Generated News Sites Don't Follow Mainstream Press' Agenda

Editor & Publisher   |  Joe Strupp   |   September 12, 2007 08:11 AM


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Mainstream media outlets may not be offering up the stories online users most want to read, according to a new survey that found user-generate new sites like Yahoo giving top billing to different stories than mainstream outlets.

The study, from the Project for Excellence in Journalism, took a week's worth of news from three user-driven sites, and Yahoo, and compared it to top stories on various mainstream outlets.

The result: online users gravitated toward different topics than those from traditional news outlets.

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Thank God....

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:56 PM on 09/12/2007

Well, that's probably because the MSM is influenced in terms of their broadcast content,
and serves as an advertising bed, so it kind of stands to reason that they're not going to be
able to compete in terms of touching on subjects
that might not be considered 'kosher' for the 6 o'clock news. TVland broadcasts happy news for happy people, and Those Issues You're Supposed To Care About, and Those Issues That They Get Told To Focus On By 'Them', and sells a lot of soap and beer and cars and fraudulent mortgages aand other shaky lending instruments and whatever the hell else they're selling these days. Internet news/opinion, not bound by
such constraints, ventures off into topics
diverse and sundry that might actually challenge someone to use the material located between their ears for something more than a simple counterweight, AKA the Madison Avenue ideal. I say that I believe the internet to be
a good cathartic remedy for such stilted interpretations and representations as might
be provided by networks bent on advertising
revenues, a good faceful of cold water for the liars' club out there, too. That having been said, Not Everything You Read On The Web Can Be Assumed To Be Accurate Or Honest, so 'caveat emptor' applies both in glossy-ad realm as well as Digi-land. But, you probably stand a better chance of getting The Straight Dope on the web.
Better that than Hair Club For Men 'news'...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:50 PM on 09/12/2007

This may be news for The Huffington Post, but for the astute online readers, we have known this for a long time now.

"Mainstream media outlets may not be offering up the stories online users most want to read, according to a new survey that found user-generate new sites like Yahoo giving top billing to different stories than mainstream outlets."

Maybe The Huffington Post will break free from their zombie-like trance and start serving us news besides MSM sources ??? - One can only hope.

When the MSM finally jumps off the Obama-Rama bandwagon, then you will finally see The Huff Post jumping off the MSM news reporting bandwagon.

LOL

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:13 PM on 09/12/2007

The attacks on the new Inter-News sites are all from their competition, the lying MSM.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:11 PM on 09/12/2007
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Check out the Jeff Danziner cartoon on September 3rd and see the use of BETRAY US for General Petareus.
http://news.yahoo.com/comics/uclickcomics/20070903/cx_jd_uc/jd20070903
Why has Moveon.Org gotten the total blame for only uses a previously posted comparison to the Generals name?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:14 AM on 09/12/2007
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