Arianna Discusses The Future Of Journalism With Peggy Noonan And The Morning Joe Crew

Arianna appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe Friday morning to discuss her testimony before the Senate Commerce Communications subcommittee earlier in the week. The Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan joined the discussion about the future of journalism and the challenges new media faces.

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[111]

Arianna,

I can't find a story about David Barstow winning a Pulitzer prize for his investigative reporting on HuffPo.

I know that network and cable news will not report on the story because it exposes them but I would have like to see this in the media section here. Did I just overlook the story here?

Just saying I would like to see more stories like this.

http://i4.democracynow.org/2009/5/8/pentagons_pundits_ny_times_reporter_david

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/21/pulitzer/

[marthainmaine]

Everytime I hear the NYT called left wing I want to throw up. The propoganda isn't working.

[countrycontemplative]

What a bunch of elitist drivel from Noonan. The blogosphere is the new media and Noonan and others have reason to be fearful of them. There is more journalism and investigative reporting going on now than ever before. TalkingPointsMemo, Huffington Post, Think Progress, Alternet, CommonDreams and many more are bringing stories to the people that the MSM will not or cannot write. This paradigm change was hastened by lack of solid reporting on the Iraq War and the Bush-Cheney abuse of power by the MSM. Google News, Reuters, WSJ, and the list goes on of who publishes on the web. Paper is wasteful and why wait 24-36 hours for a story that you can read on an iPhone, Blackberry, Netbook now. Arianna Huffington is one of the new entrepreneurs of just in time journalism. Bravo Arianna, Josh Marshall, Markos Moulitsas and countless others. The "papers" that survive will be those savvy enough to be virtual and blog like.

[Denise Lockwood]

I feel like breaking into that song from Oklahoma..­. can't the farmer and the cowman be friends?
I don't completely disagree with Arianna about the need to innovate our industry, but I have to say there's still a very large void needing to be met by the internet and television news. I don't see bloggers at the school board meetings, the muni meetings or county board meetings here in southeastern Wisconsin.­This is disturbing to me because quite frankly that is where the bulk of our tax dollars are spent. Is it sexy news? No. Does it touch people's lives directly? Yes.
I was laid off from a newspaper in southeastern Wisconsin in October, I went to the Poynter Institute's Standing Up for Journalism seminar and learned how to do multimedia projects. I pitched a multimedia pilot project to my former employer who said, hmm yeah... we like the idea, but we really don't see how we can do that right now in the midst of laying off people.
This is where nonprofit journalism is helpful. Why is it that we have public television and public radio, but not publicly funded newspapers?
I have trouble with the argument that all newspapers are dinosaurs and we all failed the communities we served, that just seems like emotionally loaded rhetoric to me. And I think there are ways we can all get along and strengthen journalism because everyone wins what that happens.

[lcdbsez]

Peggy Noonan??? . . . Joe Scarborough??? -- yikes!!!

I didn't know Arianna was into slumming.

Don't waste your time (or breath), Arianna -- they really don't hear a word you say.

[cycle3man]

Professor Arianna lecturing to the class!

[JennyHatch]

Arianna,

As one of your conservative readers who also happens to be one of your citizen journalists, I can happily report to Peggy Noonan, who seems to be lost in the 70's, that your site WORKS! I was THRILLED that when I signed up to report on our local Denver Tea Party as a citizen journalist, no one from Huff Po emailed to ask me my political views, my ideological bent or gave me any sort of instructions on how to "bend" my report. I simply signed up, made a video of our day, and sent it along and viola' my report showed up as I created it. This to me was the ultimate test of your site and a witness to anyone interested that Huffington Post is dedicated to the FACTS!

Please keep up the great work and know that a blogging conservative mom in Colorado LOVES Huffington Post!
Jenny Hatch

[amsanvel]

Wow, good to know there are other conservatives who like the HuffPo!

[Freesia2]

I'm sorry. I'm not really interested in hearing a discussion on journalism from Peggy Noonan. This is a so called journalist whose reaction to the torture revelations was that some things should remain a mystery - we should walk on by. Well newsflash for Peggy - a journalist solves mysteries. They don't walk by, they walk straight into and solve the mystery. If they're aren't doing that, then they can call themselves whatever they like, except for journalist.

That really bothered me. Not just because it's wrong, but because I've always thought she could turn a phrase, even when I disagreed with her politics. But this isn't "politics" - this is crime. And she could have made her mind to use her turns of phrase to reveal it, weigh it. But she went for a walk. And she should keep on walking.

[cycle3man]

Professor Arianna holding class!

[delta7777]

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"selling your independence for access"

ah...yes..­..the sell-out of embedment.­....

Arianna--you are absolutely spot-on and beautiful!!
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[cwwash]

That Peggy she's got a lot of "poise" kind of like Nancy Reagan, she'll talk down to you,but if you say something she agrees with she might acknowledge you.

[countfloyd]

Why didn't they put on David Simon instead of Peggy Noonan? He made the comments about local news which they talked about for 10 seconds. It is not all about investigative journalism. Reporters have to do the mundane task of going to boring meetings and picking up tidbits that can begin to build a story. All politics is local.

[njb444]

Peggy Noonan makes me laugh. Ads don't work? I have one word for her - Google.

[crater123]

If this were twitter , I'd be re-tweeting epiphany1234's comments about Arianna.

She should be in a leadership position.

She is insanely bright and always speaks the absolute truth. Amazing to watch every time.

[Yozac]

Ms. Huffington has been doing a great job educating the media and public essentially about new media. I applaud Ms. Huffington's smarts and vision.

[sjssf]

Why is anyone, anywhere listening to Peggy Noonen?

[josefgancz]

Arianna is right when she points out at various points that "investigative journalism" hasn't broken anything of value when it comes to the Iraq war, The Financial Meltdown, Torture etc etc.

So, where is this so called investigative journalism? WHERE?

[AGarcia]

Here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/30629823#30629823

[totalliberal]

AGarcia


Thank you. I travel a lot and would never have picked up on this. Single payer is the only way.