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It's time journalism broke with conventions

guardian.co.uk
31-Aug-2008
        
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Politics is the opiate of journalism and it's time to go to rehab. For the third campaign in a row, news organisations have assigned 15,000 journalists to each of the American political parties' conventions. Especially now, as the news business is under life-threatening financial siege - US newspapers have laid off more than 8,000 journalists this year alone - this indulgence is a shameful waste. Nothing happens... [read full story]                    

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What's the point of conventions?

spectator.co.uk
01-Sep-2008
        

Jeff Jarvis has had enough of the endless, vacuous coverage: Nothing happens at the conventions. They are carefully staged spin theatre. The only reason for all these journalists to travel to Denver and St Paul is ego....

Digital media, Jeff Jarvis: It's time journalism broke with conventions

guardian.co.uk
31-Aug-2008
        

Politics is the opiate of journalism and it's time to go to rehab. For the third campaign in a row, news organisations have assigned 15,000 journalists to each of the American political parties' conventions. US newspapers...

It's time journalism broke with political conventions

guardian.co.uk
31-Aug-2008
        

Politics is the opiate of journalism and it's time to go to rehab. For the third campaign in a row, news organisations have assigned 15,000 journalists to each of the American political parties' conventions. US newspapers...