End of times, or just of journalism?

August 5, 2006 by Jeff Jarvis

When you hear the haughty go on about the high standards and credibility of journalism, have them watch this compilation of inane reports on the end of times. Standards? What standards? Sense? What sense? Pride? What pride?

  • http://lesterblog.blogspot.com Jon Lester

    I’d be interested to see if anyone did a story like this in the WWI years, when global war and pestilence were at unprecedented levels. Endtimes speculation would have been just as valid then as now.

  • jake

    Clearly there is a market for this kind of idiocy, or it would not be produced. But it would be nice if the “stars” of these shows were treated more like the Jerry Springers that they are, rather than the Walter Cronkites that they think they are. Only then will Paula Zahn’s condo board or Diane Sawyer’s fellow Wellesely alums be inclined to shame them into pointing their material to a demographic somewhere north of the local 7/11 crowd.

  • RonP

    you know we’ve been as high as 187 on the rapture index. who will be the first to put the index in the rolling headline at the bottom. would be a natural for cnbc. pinheads.

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  • thedude

    Actually this is what people want. Take a look at statisics. Almost 60% of the US population is insanely believing this garbage. The old school media propably will survive because they know that Facts don’t really matter to a country filled with believers. At least the online community as no boarders so the world population is the true demographic of the new media.

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