Zócalo Public SquareLearning Journalism From TMZ – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Learning Journalism From TMZ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/03/08/learning-journalism-from-tmz/ideas/up-for-discussion/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/03/08/learning-journalism-from-tmz/ideas/up-for-discussion/#respond Fri, 08 Mar 2013 08:01:46 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=45805 Producing journalism about politics requires reckoning with entertainment culture and the journalists who cover it. Entertainers almost routinely become politicians, or at least flirt with the idea. Entertainment TV shows have become a forum for celebrities who want to make political stands, and politicians who wish to associate with celebrities. Politicians announce their presidential candidacies on comedy shows. Web sites like Gawker and TMZ can make a huge political impact with their scoops. Some political journalists fight the trend, but others see little choice but to embrace it. So in advance of a Zócalo event, “Is Infotainment Good for Political Journalism?”, we ask: What can TMZ teach political journalists?

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