Wednesday, June 7, 2023
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
4.8 • 8.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 15:44)
The Digital Age and Print News: Our Current Epoch and Its Significance on the Future of Print Business
- Hundreds of Gannett Journalists Walk Out by New York Times (Katie Robertson)
Part II (15:44 - 21:28)
The Digital Age and Television News Media: How Technology is Reshaping How We Engage Media
- CNN CEO Chris Licht Apologizes to Staff, Saying He Overshadowed Network’s Achievements by Wall Street Journal (Amol Sharma and Isabella Simonetti)
- Inside the Meltdown at CNN by The Atlantic (Tim Alberta)
Part III (21:28 - 26:37)
‘Customer Ratings Have Become Meaningless’: A Culture Where ‘Average’ Is Rated As ‘Superb’ Might Have a Problem
- Customer Ratings Have Become Meaningless. ‘People Hand Out 5 Stars Like It’s Candy.’ by Wall Street Journal (Preetika Rana)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, June 7, 2023. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm Albert Molar, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from |
| 0:11.9 | a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.8 | Something big is happening in big media, and one of the big things happening in big media |
| 0:18.4 | is that big media is not as big as it used to be. |
| 0:21.5 | Huge story here, and Christians need to watch huge changes on the media landscape, because |
| 0:26.3 | this has a great deal to do with the direction of our culture, how to understand the culture, |
| 0:30.5 | how to know what people are talking about in this culture. |
| 0:33.6 | News is more than a commodity, it is more than entertainment, it is more than programming, |
| 0:38.2 | it is a part of the national discourse, and how issues are framed in the media, and that |
| 0:43.1 | means also in news reports, and it has a great deal to do with how these issues are understood |
| 0:48.0 | by Americans, or regardless of the country you live in, the media has a similar influence |
| 0:52.8 | just about everywhere. |
| 0:55.0 | But here in the United States, huge headlines of late, for instance, yesterday's edition |
| 0:58.8 | of The New York Times included the headline, Hundreds of Gnett Journalists Walk Out, The |
| 1:03.3 | Very Same Day, The Wall Street Journal, a front page business headline, CNN's CEO apologizes |
| 1:09.1 | to staff and wake of article. |
| 1:11.6 | Everywhere you look, there are huge stories about media, the future of media, what does all |
| 1:16.5 | this mean? |
| 1:17.5 | Well, let's just step back for a moment and kind of remind ourselves of what we're talking |
| 1:21.2 | about. |
| 1:22.2 | What we're talking about is the fact that human beings are communicating beings. |
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