[Steph Senyszyn] New NME design: “Poor efforts by the work experience kids.”
A fellow Lincoln Uni journalism student is less than pleased with the new-look NME. £2.10, Steph argues, is extortionate for a weekly music mag. Quite right too.
Leads (almost) seamlessly on to…
[THE OBSERVER] Net closes in as glossy magazines lose their lustre
With a few exceptions, the popularity of magazines is fading.
[JEFF JARVIS] The emergence of media tribes
Monster post from Jeff Jarvis exploring the concept of ‘media tribes’. Who is most trusting of the media? Older people, according to a study, gather most of their news from television and, as a result, trust the MSM (mainstream media) a lot more than one of my peers who digests news from a variety of sources via the internet.
53% of Americans believe that stories are often inaccurate. Jeff blames this, partly, on George Bush. Seems fair — if the media reports a speech by Bush verbatim and then finds it to be full of inaccuracies, then that can’t be blamed on the media (although it would be easy to feel resentful about it).
“MyFootballClub members are about to buy a football club. They will own the club, vote on team selection, decide which players to buy and sell, and guide the club up the leagues.”
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