Jeff Jarvis: A Postmortem for Journalism: "Journalism lost sight of its simple, vital reason to exist: to inform the public... (Live from the Journamalists' Self-Made Hell)
...Think back on story after story and round table after round table and ask whether it was conceived and executed to help inform the electorate or instead to entertain them and grab their attention or make the journalist look like the smart one. Our job is to make the public smart.... We continue to argue that we make the product called journalism and it’s our customers’ fault if they don’t use it and benefit from it. No. It is our job to go to the public and inform their conversations, bringing facts, context, explanation, investigation, and most of all reporting.... Yes, journalism can boast David Fahrenthold...
