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New media could 'destroy civil society'

  • 06-02-2012 3:13pm
    #1
    windy bee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 102 ✭✭


    Taken from the RTE Website

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0206/media.html

    The Chairman of Thomas Crosbie Holdings has said there is a tsunami of information coming from new media some of which has the "capacity to destroy civil society".

    Speaking at a conference on media diversity in Dublin, Alan Crosbie said that the public service remit of newspapers like the Irish Examiner, the Irish Independent and the Irish Times should be recognised.

    Mr Crosbie said information from traditional media such as newspapers, radio and TV has a provenance. "We should value organisations that produce good information."

    In relation to new media, he said the question is not whether or not it delivers information, but what it delivers.

    He said "new media can sometimes give credibility to news that maybe should not have that credibility."

    Speaking at the same event, The Minister for Communications said that his Department is currently working on drafting a Bill on media mergers. Pat Rabbitte said the draft is expected to be published in the coming months.

    He he said criteria applied when assessing any future proposed mergers will include the likely effect of the media merger on plurality and the undesirability of allowing any one individual or undertaking to hold significant interests within a sector or across different sections of media business.

    The Minister also said defamation laws have yet to fully come to terms with the implications of new media.

    Mr Rabbitte said that in time there may be a place for the inclusion of established online media organs in a system of non statutory and independent self regulation in digital media, possibly even being afforded recognition in the Defamation Act.

    ...............

    What a plonk.


Comments

  • #2
    dlofnep
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    Yeah, because the likes of the Indo always produce accurate and balanced material..


  • #3
    OctavarIan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭OctavarIan


    windy bee wrote: »
    He said "new media can sometimes give credibility to news that maybe should not have that credibility."

    Quote of the century. I can't believe he actually said that. Even the papers he mentioned push their fair share of dross. Top three headlines on the Indo's website right now:

    1. "Ian Paisley rushed to hospital with suspected heart attack"
    2. "A new Dawn revealed - Star drops over seven stone after ditching carbs"
    3. "No wardrobe malfunction as Madonna wows at Super Bowl in thigh high leather"

    Yes it's new media giving credibility where credibility is not due.

    And let's not even mention the Twitterfication of every news channel in existence.

    News agencies will never die, but their role and the role of their journalists will be transformed into curators, editors and presenters, as opposed to content generators themselves.


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