More from the Chicago Tribune: Readers surveyed for stories before publication

Bad enough jobs are getting cut. But now, reader's look at the story prior to being published:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090501/ap_on_bi_ge/us_tribune_reader_survey

 

Holy. Crap.

 

That shifting sound you heard was every print journalist who died between 1790 and 1990 rolling over in their graves.

What in the holy name of journalism ethics is going on?

 

Re: More from the Chicago Tribune: Readers surveyed for stories before publicati

I'm pretty sure journalism ethics didn't exist until the early part of the 1900s at the very least. If you read the story, it was the marketing team that did this, and I don't think good ethics and marketing have every gone together on a consistent basis.

 

Wow. The marketing had to get the stories from newsside.
So newsside is at fault.

 

The guy who was cast as the soft, tight-assed, shrill little ME of The Sun in Season 5 of "The Wire" ... remember that guy, the boss with the man-crush on the corrupt reporter?

Tell me he couldn't play this guy:




Gerould Kern, savior of journalism smartest man in the room.

 

Just to refresh your memory:

 

These clowns don't seem to know that newspaper stories have more readers than ever. The demand for news is insatiable, so it's not the journalism that needs an overhaul.
It's their idiotic business model that needs fixing. They have no clue how to convert eyeballs into money, so they blame it on the journalists and try garbage like this.