{"id":50646,"date":"2016-12-14T21:56:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T21:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50646"},"modified":"2016-12-14T22:16:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T22:16:41","slug":"the-people-running-the-media-are-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50646","title":{"rendered":"The people running the media are the problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2016\/12\/the-people-running-the-media-are-the-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The people running the media are the problem<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nieman Lab<\/a><br \/>\n2016-12-13<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattwaite\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Waite<\/a>,<\/strong> Founder, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dronejournalismlab.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Drone Journalism Lab<\/em><\/a>; Professor of Journalism<br \/>\n<em>University of Nebraska<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This month, I spent a week surrounded by bright, well-meaning journalism and tech thinkers. Session after session, day after day, conversations kept coming back to these questions: How do we restore trust in media? How do we reach <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Middle_America\" target=\"_blank\">Middle America<\/a>? What do we do about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fake_news_websites_in_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">fake news<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s my prediction for 2017. It\u2019s the safest prediction I could make beyond the sun coming up in the morning. It\u2019s aimed right at the people who run news organizations.<\/p>\n<p><em>You won\u2019t fix this.<\/em> Any of this. Not in 2017. Not soon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2016\/12\/the-people-running-the-media-are-the-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The people running the media are the problem Nieman Lab 2016-12-13 Matt Waite, Founder, Drone Journalism Lab; Professor of Journalism University of Nebraska This month, I spent a week surrounded by bright, well-meaning journalism and tech thinkers. Session after session, day after day, conversations kept coming back to these questions: How do we restore trust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,8,20],"tags":[25742,25741],"class_list":["post-50646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-matt-waite","tag-nieman-lab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50647,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50646\/revisions\/50647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}