: Tell a different story…New definition of success…
Ed Goodpaster says American journalism needs a new definition of success:
[Jayson] Blair was operating under the credo–self-imposed or not–that to make it in a profession/business that increasingly measures its victories on celebrity and not substance, you have to win big and you have to win often.
It is a mentality that has grown over the past 20 years as electronic news outlets flourished. Thousands of the “grunts” of journalism labor each day around the country to help you understand the world. They get little public acclaim. It would be a start to get the industry to talk up the premise that you’re just as valuable to good journalism, and maybe more, if you cover city hall or the statehouse well as if you are a Washington TV talk-show regular.
This can never happen as long as journalists continue to try to make TV a news medium or, worse, continue to make news more entertaining for TV.
