Thirty-two percent of all story ideas generated in newsroom budget meetings come from National Public Radio. It’s a true fact. Go ahead, look it up.
Journalists like NPR.
At least three times a week, a journalist will start a conversation with “So I heard on NPR . . .”
During a news meeting, it’s not uncommon for a journalist to bring up the story he or she heard on “Fresh Air” or “All Things Considered.”
NPR is the closest thing U.S. journalists have to the BBC, another thing journalists like.
But don’t be confused that journalists are actually listening to the radio. In this day of new media, journalists like downloading their favorite episodes of “Wait, Wait . . . Don’t tell Me!” and “Capital Steps” onto their iPods and iPhones and then bemoan about the lack of NPR programming on their local station.
Journalists also like NPR because it’s a news medium that, unlike it’s ink and television counterparts, is not for profit. The idea of not having to make money is very attractive to journalists, who currently have no interest in doing so now.
If only newspapers and TV stations could receive governmental funding and host endless campaign drives to raise money.
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“Bemoan about”? Try “bemoan.” As in “We bemoan the fact that so many journalists apparently never took an effing grammar class.”
In New Zealand it’s exactly the same – ‘I was listening to National Radio in the car and there was a story about…fireworks…I was thinking we could localise it?” @Suze – could people stop BEMOANING the lack of copyediting in the blog? It’s tedious and irrational. Spelling and grammar are not the natural sphere of the journo – they like spinning yarns, complaining, being hungover and trying not to fall asleep in council meetings
Here’s something else to bemoan. Writing about journalists,”…who currently have no interest in doing so now….” and apparently not knowing that “currently” means “now.”
At least they didn’t write, “that currently…”
I vote for more proofreaders, or bloggists who have at least a 3rd grade grasp of English grammar.
I vote for people with no sense of humor to stop reading this blog. Is all of your copy perfect Suze and Arthur? Everyone makes mistakes. Copy editors are few and far between these days in newsrooms and bloggers don’t usually have editors or copy editors to watch their backs. Get off of your high horse and enjoy a little chuckle. Seems you could use one.
I don’t want to rely on government funding. At least in a for-profit venture, decisions are made by the owner of the publication, for better or worse. Advertising is a drag, but federal funding would come with even more strings attached. If you accept government cash, how long before your criticism of the people in power affects your funding? Perhaps the party in power would funnel money only toward media that suit its point of view. And in a time when there IS no extra federal money, the idea would never make the cut. It doesn’t work in Cuba and other oppressive regimes and it would not work here. Bad idea. And for the record, I’m on the side of the Grammar Police. When the world is all bloggish, we copy editors will have nowhere to turn for our red ink fetish.