Rosen: Post Rocks!
High praise for the Post from Jay Rosen, God of Media:
Just one man’s opinion, but now is a good time to say it: The New York Times is not any longer–in my mind–the greatest newspaper in the land. Nor is it the base line for the public narrative that it once was. Some time in the least year or so I moved the Washington Post into that position…
… The Post, I believe, is our great national newspaper now; the Times is number two, with the Wall Street Journal close behind. Still a strong fleet. With a new ship in the lead perhaps it will sail to unexpected places.
It was a long time in the making, this change in my half-conscious rankings of the great players in news. The Web has a lot to do with it, for the Post has been bolder, more willing to experiment online, less hung up. (Plus it hired this guy, a key move.) TimesSelect has something to do with it, too, for the reasons I explored in an earlier post. The breakdown in controls in reporting Weapons of Mass Destruction is, of course a factor–along with earlier episodes: Jayson Blair, Wen Ho Lee, Paul Krugman‘s correction trauma. It’s an accumulation of things; the Post is just more agile, better able to adjust to a changing world, and the exploding marketplace in news and views.
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Nadine Cheung
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