Partisan Pundits in New Media
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Partisan Pundits in New Media
Partisan Pundits
Partisan Pundits are people who hold prominent political positions working up the newsroom ladder are able to achieve celebrity status, hence are regarded as celebrity journalists. Their popularity is built primarily from mainstream political media organizations and uses new media to enhance their popularity. For the celebrity journalists, will often find it difficult to step down or abandoning their association or previous political role therefore find themselves offering advice to politicians. For example New York Times Columnist William Safire who was a former speech writer for former US President Richard Nixon was asked from House Speaker Newt Gingrich of how to handle the ethics charges levied against him.
Checkbook Journalism
Checkbook Journalism involves in the process when money are paid to the informant of the information. Due to the high costs of news, checkbook journalism is often regarded as the economic alternative of publishing or going by the conventional segment which is an interview recorded in a studio and tracking a story on location. However criticims of such method in journalism are that it threatens the fundemental credibility of news. [1]
Conventional Segments of interviews filmed in studio
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[ [2] New Media and American Politics]
