Results matching “at broader msm battle”

In a recent column, Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander highlights a growing movement among media organizations to end the practice whereby officials insist their remarks remain "off the record" at large public events. A number of groups are gathering signatures from news outlets on a letter addressed to members of Congress, federal agencies and the White House asking them to reexamine the issue.

"Standing in front of 300 people and declaring your words to be 'off-the-record' is frustrating for reporters, but it's also silly," Rick Blum, a coordinator for the advocacy group Sunshine in Government Initiative, told Alexander. "With Twitter, blogs and old-style e-mail, the lobbyists, bloggers and other opinion-shapers in the audience will repeat your words a thousand different ways before you step off the podium. But a reporter who respects the traditional rules of the road can't report what you say to a broader audience."

As the battle over who will claim the London afternoon free paper turf begins its second week, two somewhat contradictory articles surfaced in the British press. One concludes that the freesheets' publishers won't be reporting profits any time soon. The other suggests that in ten years, all print papers may be free.

No matter how much print publications undermine the blogosphere’s influence and credibility, they are certainly paying attention to the online forums. The recent outcry by two magazines over the premature Web release of the “exclusive” Brad Pitt-Angelina Jolie baby photos is a prime example of the escalating tension between traditional and new media.