Chile mine story is a story about journalism’s failure

OWNI.eu :: Jeremy Littau, an American journalist, critizices the way the Chile mine story was covered by media: was it necessary to spend so much money and to send so many journalists for that event?

[Jay Rosen on Twitter] A big story and a great story, but does 1300 journalists covering the Chilean miners have anything to do with reality?

To know that 1,300 journalists have descended on this mining town to cover a worldwide story is a little disconcerting in an era of closed foreign bureaus and budget cutbacks. Many might question Littau's thought given the intense interest in the story. Jeremy: "1,300 journalists  – imagine what we could do with that."

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