Toxic Tabloid: 140+ News Corp papers share a global production system with NoTW
x-news-corp | 16.07.2011 05:34 | Globalisation | Technology
The UK newspapers are one small set of a single, global newspaper production system. 140 newspapers share a single production system where all news is shared. So a crime in one newspaper is a crime for all.
The cancer metaphor is important because, like any multinational corporation, it has an integrated production system. In the case of the newspapers at News Corp, roughly 150 newspapers share a single platform. There is very deep intermingling between newspapers brands, within locations such as Wapping, the news factory for News of The World (and The Sun, The Times etc) and between geographic locations.
The cancer metaphor is important because, like any multinational corporation, it has an integrated production system. In the case of the newspapers at News Corp, roughly 150 newspapers share a single platform. There is very deep intermingling between newspapers brands, within locations such as Wapping, the news factory for News of The World (and The Sun, The Times etc) and between geographic locations.
The UK newspapers are one small set of a single, global newspaper production system. 140 newspapers share a single production system where all news is shared. So a crime in one newspaper is a crime for all.
Fox News is the TV version of News of the World. Everything about Fox News has the same pattern as News International newspapers. Fill in the blanks about wire-tapping etc. They sure use entrapment, bullying and opinion that borders on systematic lies and propaganda.
The cancer metaphor is important because, like any multinational corporation, it has an integrated production system. In the case of the newspapers at News Corp, roughly 150 newspapers share a single platform. There is very deep intermingling between newspapers brands, within locations such as Wapping, the news factory for News of The World (and The Sun, The Times etc) and between geographic locations.
Economies of scale in newspaper production drove the consolidation of newspaper production on a single platform, and the need to syndicate finished stories and rapidly share leads and editorial processes within the corporation and against competitors means there is a very big chance that the NoTW toxic tabloid journalism contagion will spread. The criminal content did not remain isolated in Wapping, instead it would of been spread throughout the 150 newspaper network.
Cross media would also have ensured the textual content would of been spread into other formats like TV. In Australia FoxTel and Sky, in UK BSkyB, the US Fox.
News International's newspapers are a small set of a single, unified, global, newspaper production system. Its integrated principally by the digital pagination and advertising system, which operates on the same software as airlines or banks. Its a real-time market for matching ads to editorial and selling content. There are 140 newspapers around the world ALL sharing the same production system. The printing presses are also part of the system, and KRM has made massive investments in these news factories over the years.
So, an editor in Australia can see into the news desk of the News of the World and see what is happening! Staff are moved around the empire all the time. Journalists and editors loyal to Murdoch, and prepared to do the dirty work are rewarded and the industrial fuedalism of personal loyalty is very strong.
In this global news factory network, the cheapest form of content is sleaze, then sport. Next is gossip. Then opinion. In the UK its ok to do all of this, there is a market. In the US, the Republican moral majority does not allow titties on television, but Fox News is built on gossip. Research is expensive and often reveals unwelcome truths for the proprietor or his advertisers. Sleaze, sport, gossip and opinion are cheap and can be used to attack enemies.
Fox News is tabloid journalism for the TV age. I hate to think what is being done at MySpace.
It will be hard to contain the criminal liability just to the UK papers when the business and editorial systems are global. 140 newspapers which now includes the WSJ
Just like the financial systems spread contagion in realtime, so too the toxic journalism and criminal content is automatically syndicated worldwide
Fox News is the TV version of News of the World. Everything about Fox News has the same pattern as News International newspapers. Fill in the blanks about wire-tapping etc. They sure use entrapment, bullying and opinion that borders on systematic lies and propaganda.
The cancer metaphor is important because, like any multinational corporation, it has an integrated production system. In the case of the newspapers at News Corp, roughly 150 newspapers share a single platform. There is very deep intermingling between newspapers brands, within locations such as Wapping, the news factory for News of The World (and The Sun, The Times etc) and between geographic locations.
Economies of scale in newspaper production drove the consolidation of newspaper production on a single platform, and the need to syndicate finished stories and rapidly share leads and editorial processes within the corporation and against competitors means there is a very big chance that the NoTW toxic tabloid journalism contagion will spread. The criminal content did not remain isolated in Wapping, instead it would of been spread throughout the 150 newspaper network.
Cross media would also have ensured the textual content would of been spread into other formats like TV. In Australia FoxTel and Sky, in UK BSkyB, the US Fox.
News International's newspapers are a small set of a single, unified, global, newspaper production system. Its integrated principally by the digital pagination and advertising system, which operates on the same software as airlines or banks. Its a real-time market for matching ads to editorial and selling content. There are 140 newspapers around the world ALL sharing the same production system. The printing presses are also part of the system, and KRM has made massive investments in these news factories over the years.
So, an editor in Australia can see into the news desk of the News of the World and see what is happening! Staff are moved around the empire all the time. Journalists and editors loyal to Murdoch, and prepared to do the dirty work are rewarded and the industrial fuedalism of personal loyalty is very strong.
In this global news factory network, the cheapest form of content is sleaze, then sport. Next is gossip. Then opinion. In the UK its ok to do all of this, there is a market. In the US, the Republican moral majority does not allow titties on television, but Fox News is built on gossip. Research is expensive and often reveals unwelcome truths for the proprietor or his advertisers. Sleaze, sport, gossip and opinion are cheap and can be used to attack enemies.
Fox News is tabloid journalism for the TV age. I hate to think what is being done at MySpace.
It will be hard to contain the criminal liability just to the UK papers when the business and editorial systems are global. 140 newspapers which now includes the WSJ
Just like the financial systems spread contagion in realtime, so too the toxic journalism and criminal content is automatically syndicated worldwide
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Not a logical conclusion
16.07.2011 07:51
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Jonathon Cook on Nick Davies and the corporate media
16.07.2011 09:09
Here is a far better comment from Jonathon Cook:
It is so ironic that Nick Davies is the primary author of Murdoch's current misfortunes. This is the journalist who, we must keep reminding ourselves, wrote in his book Flat Earth News, which made such an impact on his fellow journalists, that the influence of proprietors AND advertisers on editorial output was no more than 5-10%.
And yet the Guardian is now stuffed with information, as well as comments from media pundits and News International insiders, showing us that Murdoch had a stranglehold on both our political class and our police force. What does this tell us about investigative reporter Nick Davies' own ability to understand the larger forces at work on the media's output?
Is it really credible that a corporation boss who effectively had this country's politicians and law enforcers in his pocket to advance his business interests did not also wield enormous influence - whether direct or indirect - on all the media under his control? And is it really credible that, if he was able to dictate the news agenda in the media he controlled (some of the country's dominant producers of news), he didn't also dramatically skew the news agenda of all our media?
And none of this, of course, accounts for the role of the advertisers.
So Davies' figure of 5-10% is simply preposterous. It would be fascinating to know if he still sticks to this estimate or now accepts it was wildly off. And if it was wildly off, what does it do to his theory that journalism's failure can be explained simply by the 10 rules of production - practical pressure and limitations on journalists caused chiefly by cost- and corner-cutting?
If Davies admitted strong proprietorial influence on the media, it would force him to examine structural constraints on "truth-telling". Can he now bring himself to do that? If he can't, it would be yet further proof of Chomsky's view that the media filters out truly independent-minded journalists, the ones capable of understanding the intimate connection between corporate power and a corporate media.
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16.07.2011 13:36
The original article is extremely poorly composed with only one central conclusion repeated ad nauseum and is totally lacking in analysis.
Along comes reader and makes a personal insult - calling me a spammer. Yet reader provides a totally different analysis to the first article. Shame neither of them can do their own critique and analysis.
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composition bad, but logic sound
18.07.2011 06:22
However, the logic is sound.
Do some research on how News Corp actually functions as a global, mass-multi-media corporation, the history of digital pagination at Wapping and around the world and the use of digital networks for journalism.
Many of the stories about sleaze go global and the editorial process is also global. New versions of stories, new headlines, creative editorial ideas come from all sorts of directions and tight budgets and tight deadlines mean that journalists often are syndicating entire stories or editing new ones from existing ones
If a journalist in NYC lifts as story from Wapping that has been acquired ilegally, via corruption of a police officer, than they too have committed a crime. If they have been emailing or messaging each other its obviously the case.
The actor Jude Law is saying his phone was hacked in JFK and appeared in the NOTW. The royals and celebs are revolting
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