Dick Spamming the World Journalism Crisis

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DRAFT DATE: 4th December 2009

Dick spamming world journalism in crisis

by jason brown, founder, JICC
JICC blog | journalism in crisis coalition

A leading university gets together globally “reknown” reporters to debate a world crisis in journalism.

Famous names from the US, the UK and Africa, top scribblers.

Nothing happens.

Not one journalist reports the debate.

Not a single news story.

Out of 38 comments left on a site set up especially for the event, just one was from a journalist.

The rest?

Dick spammers.

Viagra, crisalsis???, stuff like that.

Outside of dick spam, reaction was flacid.

Just one opinion piece, in The Guardian, waving away the world crisis.

No reported resolutions.

No agreement on the question.

No agreed facts.

Few facts at all.

No transcript.

Is world journalism in crisis?

Who knows?

Questions must be asked.

Who is responsible for this world-wide white-out?

Journalists?

Editors?

Publishers?

Over earlier months, “journalism in crisis” had been coined and accepted as news short-hand for debating the issue. Coventry saw the first event to add the word “world” to this slogan.

In the United States of America, journalism in crisis debate did get a bit of mainstream coverage. At one event the word “crisis” was used only once – by the moderator introducing the topic.

After that?

Not one mention.

There was, at least, a transcript, enabling analysis by word count.

No such luck at Coventry, webcast live over the internet.

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NOTES

> Research Jeff Jarvis

> Email author of Flat Earth News for reaction to lack of reaction.

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