Jay Rosen Quotations

What The Post is doing today is a recognition that the balance of power has shifted to users who can choose the way they receive news . . . that they're not entirely in charge of how people get their news anymore.

She subtracted from public knowledge by introducing this unknown source whose name she couldn't remember. It's almost like the gaps in the Nixon tapes.

But what recourse do they have . . . complain to the publisher?,

Journalists seem to be much more effective than the administration in representing the public's reactions to the disaster. Clueless federal officials seem to know less about what is happening than the journalists do, and sometimes less than an average TV viewer. This tips the balance of power toward the press, which is why we see such aggressive questioning and on-air criticism close to jeering.

There is nothing to compel a tenured professor of journalism to engage with the Internet other than as a user.

Bob Woodward has gone wholly into access journalism.

Big Media does not know how to innovate, ... What capacity for product development do news organizations show? Zip. How are they on nurturing innovation? Terrible. Is there an entrepreneurial spirit in newsrooms? No. Do smart young people ever come in and overturn everything? Never. Do these firms attract designers and geeks who are gifted with technology? They don't, because they don't do anything challenging enough. They don't innovate, or pay well. So they can't compete.

Argument is what causes them to seek out more information.

The Times felt helpless, ... It couldn't print the news. It was very much trapped.

I've been trying to cultivate relationships with wine retailers around the region. When their loyal customers are looking for a referral about a wine cellar builder, I'd like to be the one they suggest.

Things I Used to Teach That I No Longer Believe

Authority in an interactive world comes from communicating, not from avoiding communication. Explaining yourself is not navel-gazing. It's a part of democracy.

That small fridge in the dining room just isn't doing the job anymore. When there are bottles stored in every room in the house, it's time to think about a better option.

This case was a complete loser for the press. It exposed this traffic in secrets. And whenever the press is claiming rights that are an exception from the rest of the public, then I think it works against the press.

It's always been the case that news organizations did things that weren't fully justified...(but) in the past, it didn't really matter, because there wasn't any way to challenge decision-making.

It's striking that the lessons of their own self-study after Jayson Blair seemed to evaporate.

The average wine cellar can hold 1,500 to 2,000 bottles of wine, is temperature-controlled and is completely insulated.

Not only is the Times not operating properly, it's unable to say to readers: here's why we're not.

I just don't think there is any more Judy Miller credibility,

I don't see any way she could have returned to the paper because she had violated the code of professional journalism in so many ways that I didn't see the staff able to accept her again. I don't think her peers understood why she went to prison in the first place and why she left when she left.

I don't see any reason why Yahoo could not establish trust and reliability as a common carrier -- that adjustable filter that Yahoo News is now -- and, at the same time, become a credible producer of its own editorial content, ... There are problems to solve in the dual track approach, because its requires two different kinds of user trust. The day when Yahoo starts hesitating to point out to the rest of the Web (because it covets the traffic for locally produced goods) is the day decline sets in. My guess is they know that.

These aren't exactly people who lack voice or visibility in our culture.