Maioria dos jornalistas dos EUA pouco satisfeitos Foi hoje apresentado nos Estados Unidos da América um importante estudo sobre como os jornalistas daquele país se vêem a si próprios e vêem a profissão que exercem. A pesquisa, desenvolvida pelos The Pew Research Center, The Project for Excellence in Journalism and The Committee of Concerned Journalists, aponta para resultados não muito animadores. Veja-se o tom da apresentação geral: "Journalists are unhappy with the way things are going in their profession these days. Many give poor grades to the coverage offered by the types of media that serve most Americans: daily newspapers, local TV, network TV news and cable news outlets. In fact, despite recent scandals at the New York Times and USA Today, only national newspapers ­ and the websites of national news organizations ­ receive good performance grades from the journalistic ranks. Roughly half of journalists at national media outlets (51%), and about as many from local media (46%), believe that journalism is going in the wrong direction, as significant majorities of journalists have come to believe that increased bottom line pressure is "seriously hurting" the quality of news coverage. This is the view of 66% of national news people and 57% of the local journalists questioned in this survey". Mais informação sobre este assunto: - Journalists say bottom line hurting coverage; - More Journalists Dismayed With Profession ; - Survey Finds Angst-Strained Wretches in the Fourth Estate; - Survey: Profit pressures worry most journalists.