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Going Live: Getting the News Right in a Real-Time, Online World
Live! Breaking story! Up-to-the-minute coverage! We hear these teasers every day. But do they always guide us to real news? With the explosive growth of online news and increased barrage of sensational live shots on TV, getting a story first seems more important than getting it right. In Going Live, veteran journalist Philip Seib warns of the dangers of trivialized news and sloppy ethics in this “new news” age. Whether you love or hate the news media, this is an indispensable look at where journalism is heading―and how we can sort out what's important and accurate in the news we get in an ever-faster moving stream.
216 pages, Hardcover
First published November 22, 2000
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Philip Seib
33 books9 followersPhilip Seib is a Professor of Journalism and Public Diplomacy and Professor of International Relations.
Seib's research interests include the effects of news coverage on foreign policy, particularly conflict and terrorism issues. He is author or editor of numerous books, including Headline Diplomacy: How News Coverage Affects Foreign Policy; The Global Journalist: News and Conscience in a World of Conflict; Broadcasts from the Blitz: How Edward R. Murrow Helped Lead America into War; Beyond the Front Lines: How the News Media Cover a World Shaped by War; New Media and the Middle East (2007); The Al Jazeera Effect (2008); Toward a New Public Diplomacy: Redirecting U.S. Foreign Policy (2009); and Real-Time Diplomacy: Politics and Power in the Social Media Era (2012). Seib is also the editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication, co-editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy and co-editor of the journal Media, War and Conflict, published by Sage.
Prior to joining the USC faculty in 2007, Seib was a professor at Marquette University and before that at Southern Methodist University.
[source: http://annenberg.usc.edu/faculty/comm... ]
Seib's research interests include the effects of news coverage on foreign policy, particularly conflict and terrorism issues. He is author or editor of numerous books, including Headline Diplomacy: How News Coverage Affects Foreign Policy; The Global Journalist: News and Conscience in a World of Conflict; Broadcasts from the Blitz: How Edward R. Murrow Helped Lead America into War; Beyond the Front Lines: How the News Media Cover a World Shaped by War; New Media and the Middle East (2007); The Al Jazeera Effect (2008); Toward a New Public Diplomacy: Redirecting U.S. Foreign Policy (2009); and Real-Time Diplomacy: Politics and Power in the Social Media Era (2012). Seib is also the editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication, co-editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy and co-editor of the journal Media, War and Conflict, published by Sage.
Prior to joining the USC faculty in 2007, Seib was a professor at Marquette University and before that at Southern Methodist University.
[source: http://annenberg.usc.edu/faculty/comm... ]
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March 24, 2013
Ok, this book probably deserves more than 3 stars - it was informative and interesting but there were a couple of things which kind of ruined it for me.
First of all, the fact that the book was first published in 2000, means that the information is a little outdated; especially since this is a book about technology and media. Most of the "amazing phenomena" described in the book are now accepted facts. The second thing which made this book un-four-stars-worthy is the fact that the reader is literally bombarded with figures and statistics. While I understand that numerical and statistical evidence gives the book a sense of credibility and seriousness, I couldn't help but get a little bored, especially when the points could have been easily understood without a plethora of numerical examples.
Although I must say, I really did learn from this book, and while it didn't drastically change my outlook on media, it helped put things in perspective.
First of all, the fact that the book was first published in 2000, means that the information is a little outdated; especially since this is a book about technology and media. Most of the "amazing phenomena" described in the book are now accepted facts. The second thing which made this book un-four-stars-worthy is the fact that the reader is literally bombarded with figures and statistics. While I understand that numerical and statistical evidence gives the book a sense of credibility and seriousness, I couldn't help but get a little bored, especially when the points could have been easily understood without a plethora of numerical examples.
Although I must say, I really did learn from this book, and while it didn't drastically change my outlook on media, it helped put things in perspective.
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