The Pew Research Center released a report a few days ago about the journalists people admired the most. The person named most often was Katie Couric, but that was by only 5 percent of those surveyed. Forty-four percent didn't -- or couldn't -- name anyone. That's a sad state of affairs.
What I found even more amazing was that 2 percent named Jon Stewart as their most admired journalist. What the....? Stewart says all the time he's not a real journalist, but there you go.
I find that even worse than Bill O'Reilly's second place finish with 4 percent! Let's say that word again, newsies: journalebrities.
The actual question asked of just over 1,000 people was: Thinking about the news, what journalist or news person do you most admire? I can't tell if the survey covered just TV and radio journalists, but I have to ask about newspaper journalists. Could the average person name one, short of perhaps Bob Woodward? I doubt it.
Who's your most admired journalist?
1 comment:
That's a difficult question to answer nowadays. People tend to gravitate towards the familiar names and to those who have national appeal. I feel that generally people think that journalists are merely those who deliver news on television or point a microphone at someone's face. Again, another blow to the newspaper industry. Personally, may faves are some of the people that I work with everyday. Visually anonymous. Just a voice and a byline.
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