Every reporter picks and chooses to build a narrative from an event, but the difference between these two reports on Rupert Murdoch’s recent lecture on the future of newspapers — Murdoch upbeat about future of newspapers in the Globe & Mail and Murdoch to media: You dug yourself a huge hole at CNET News — is striking.
The Globe report deals only with Murdoch’s bullish predictions for the future of newspapers, and twice references his comments about those who are predicting the death of newspapers as being “misguided cynics.”
The CNET report, on the other hand, gives much detail on something the Globe report ignores: Murdoch’s criticism of editors, reporters and newspaper owners who have forgotten the newspaper’s bond with its readers. When I read the transcription of Murdoch’s speech, that seems to me to be one of the central points of the thing.
(Neither CNET nor the Globe have a link to Murdoch’s full speech.)
I don’t see anything conspiratorial in the Globe ignoring Murdoch’s criticism of some newspapers for driving away readers, but it is an interesting omission.
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