Journalism has been divided for too long. Information became a commodity and stories became a race. Meanwhile, the public got so caught up in the competition, they begin to value journalism's information less and less. How do we fix this?
In Jennifer Brandel's extremely well-crafted "A love letter from the year 2073" she describes a number of things that journalism will change in order to adapt and improve.
The first issue was lack of information. When every news organization fights for the same scoop, the details become warped and the views a competition. Brandel describes a future in which an infodistrict tax bill forces cooperation of information. "Before that, communities had no way of having reliable and equitable access to information and knowledge exchange" (Brandel)
The second issue is journalism not identifying the power dynamics of the situations they write about. "It wasn’t taught to reporters yet that every story is ultimately about power, so they didn’t single power out as a thread that could help people quickly ascertain what was going on and what they could do about it." (Brandel) In Brandel's opinion, every story ultimately boils down to power and the dynamics in between. By identifying these dymanics and writing about them, it would increase the clarity for many readers. The third issue is a lack of cooperation, or interdependence, of different fields of studies. Since nobody has the skill set to appeal to two industries and bridge the gap, "...innovation was so much slower and more expensive to materialize." (Brandel) [1 image, 3 quotations, 1 link, 253 words]
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