The News - Ted Koppel & Arianna Huffington at Zeitgeist Americas 2011

The News--From bringing light to untold stories to becoming the story - how has the news evolved and how can it be used as a medium for change?

In conversation with Nicholas Thompson:
Ted Koppel, Commentator, NPR
Arianna Huffington, President & Editor-in-Chief, AOL Huffington Post Media Group

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[beornborg1]

Speaking of NOT talking about specific stories. What about the News organizations being influenced by large corporation interests? Here we have Ted representing the old corporations, and Arianna the new corporations.

In essence we still have large corporations being the gate keepers and aggregators. Ted had a point when he spoke of integrity. We don't have anything like a Journalism (or editor) Ombudsman ... if such a thing makes sense.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...

[RemedyDesignGroup]

@josquin101554 I agree. Kids always want the cookies. It's their parents that tell them they need the broccoli. We are becoming a world of children.

[johnreyes78]

News just needs to adapt and quit whining about how it 'used' to be. Relinquish your pride of comfort zone. Journalists aren't the only ones unemployed..

[brimo109]

"Until there's is a growing market for quality news, as opposed to a shrinking market, the quality of news will continue to decline. " And young attitudes like this is why old fighters for a "Quality of Life" become depressed. There is a need to know everything ... that is fact, just not the opinions.

[josquin101554]

I agree in principle that American journalism should be more oriented to giving people news that they need, not what they want. But there are two issues. Who decides what they need? And assuming more news outlets provide higher quality journalism, that doesn't mean people will consume it.  Until there's is a growing market for quality news, as opposed to a shrinking market, the quality of news will continue to decline.

[Jonathanmarks]

This a great considered discussion on what's missing in modern media. I am so fed up with event journalism which is devoid of considered analysis. As Ted says, where are the editors. Although I think Arianna's properties understand the social graph better than most, I fear for those trying to build a career. Traffic drives form and then the content. This video had only 65 views when I found it. Not because it was bad. But because it's divorced from a context. It desperately needs curation.