For these reasons, television's actual competition isn't movies or museums or novels but nonfiction books, documentary films, journalism, radio discussions, and general online clicking.
The very essence of the format of serial television is information masquerading as art; its actual competition isn't movies or museums or even novels but nonfiction, journalism, radio discussions, and podcasts.
In the M.S. program, several fall semester Reporting professors assign students to beats covering New York City's many ethnic communities; and the Friday classes on history, ethics, media law and business of journalism include discussions related to global media and international journalists.
While sitting as a guest on one of those state-of-journalism panel discussions at Northwestern University one evening, McAvoy snaps (an homage to "Network's" Howard Beale) when a wide-eyed student asks him what makes America great.
As I argue in The Newsroom as an Open Air Prison: Corruption and Self-Censorship in Turkish Journalism, a discussion paper that I prepared as Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School last autumn, this is the tragic story of the demise of a profession in one of the most important parts of the world.
A result is that art, journalism and policy discussions remain constricted by political boundaries as well as by a genuine respect for the elderly heroes of the Communist victory.
To do anything else is to be an enemy of journalism, deliberately stifling discussion, and going out of one's way to ensure further discussion is feared.
Good journalism enhances the discussion of serious topics, but Dobbs helps to undermine and debase that discussion, routinely infusing it with misinformation and fear.
Mao's days are a distant memory now, and citizen protests, muckraking journalism and open discussion of social problems are accepted parts of Chinese life.
The Guardian has historically been praised for its investigative journalism, its dispassionate discussion of issues, its literary and artistic coverage and criticism, and its foreign correspondence.
