Comments on: News is a process, not a finished product http://www.lostremote.com/2007/11/15/news-is-a-process-not-a-finished-product/ Where TV Finds the Future Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:17:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Brink http://www.lostremote.com/2007/11/15/news-is-a-process-not-a-finished-product/#comment-569701 Brink Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:07:29 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/11/15/news-is-a-process-not-a-finished-product/#comment-569701 Just another example of how we legitimize sloppy coverage of news on the internet. Just another example of how we legitimize sloppy coverage of news on the internet.

]]> By: Rick Ellis http://www.lostremote.com/2007/11/15/news-is-a-process-not-a-finished-product/#comment-569393 Rick Ellis Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:00:22 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/11/15/news-is-a-process-not-a-finished-product/#comment-569393 The real secret of TMZ is that it was able to combine the deep pockets of its owners with a deniability that makes it almost impossible for news channels and online news operations to ignore. It's common practice for otherwise careful journalists to use TMZ.com as an easy way to introduce unsourced, salacious celebrity news. Using the phrase "TMZ reports" offers up denialability to every Britney Spears tidbit or Paris Hilton sighting. Yes, TMZ does get things right. But it often gets them wrong. And even more frequently, it offers up a series of posts that are obviously coming from one side of a celebrity story. Okay, I'm going to stop ranting now.... The real secret of TMZ is that it was able to combine the deep pockets of its owners with a deniability that makes it almost impossible for news channels and online news operations to ignore.

It’s common practice for otherwise careful journalists to use TMZ.com as an easy way to introduce unsourced, salacious celebrity news. Using the phrase “TMZ reports” offers up denialability to every Britney Spears tidbit or Paris Hilton sighting.

Yes, TMZ does get things right. But it often gets them wrong. And even more frequently, it offers up a series of posts that are obviously coming from one side of a celebrity story.

Okay, I’m going to stop ranting now….

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