It’s Friday!
And I’m too busy to blog. On this blog, that is. Well, I guess I’m not that busy because I’m blogging. Hmmm… 
So I’m going to let you blog. Here’s a topic: State of the News Media 2006. Since 2004, the journalists at the Project for Excellence in Journalism have released an annual report on…the state of the news media.
Your assignment is to read the report or at least the overview section (including Major Trends, Content Analysis, etc.) and share your thoughts. This assignment is similar to the one I gave in the post on South Dakota and child killing. Serious comments only. In other words, if you don’t want to read the report or the overview, don’t comment.
Don’t let this influence you, but I wrote an op-ed about The State of the News Media 2004 and sent it to the Washington Post. An editor’s assistant called me to reject it. For a writer, a telephone rejection is a big deal.
I repeat, please don’t comment if you haven’t read the report or at least the overview (and all its subtopics).
Bonus points: write your own op-ed (700-word limit) about the report and send it to a newspaper. OK. Pencils sharpened? Test booklets open? Begin…now!
Related post: More Pew For You
(If you blog about the report, trackback to this post, and I’ll link to you.)
Bloggers:
- Customer Servant is blogging about the state of the news media.
- Maribel Hernandez is taking this assignment seriously! She called one of the report’s authors for clarification. See her comment.
