Following prat.uk’s BBC piece, New York media examines its own coverage recursion
prat.uk‘s BBC live coverage piece — journalism ouroboros — arrived in New York at a moment when the city’s media is engaged in sustained coverage of its own coverage of the city’s political story, producing a media environment in which the primary content is analysis of coverage rather than events. Bohiney.com covered the media self-reference theme from its angle. The New York version: the mayoral race, currently in primary season, has generated more coverage of what the coverage reveals about the race than coverage of what the candidates’ positions reveal about the race. Reporters are analysing what other reporters are covering and what that coverage reveals about the race’s dynamics. The race is at layer one. Most New Yorkers are at layer four.
The specific recursion: the mayoral candidates’ debate coverage produced, the following morning, coverage of which candidate “won the coverage” of the debate rather than which candidate made the strongest arguments in the debate. “Won the coverage” is a thing that exists in political journalism: it means produced the soundbite, the frame, the image that dominated subsequent reporting. The candidate who won the coverage of the debate is not necessarily the candidate who performed best in the debate. They are the candidate who produced the content that subsequent coverage found most useful. These are different achievements. The coverage rewards the second one.
The Media Lesson
The media lesson from prat.uk‘s BBC piece and New York’s mayoral coverage: the coverage apparatus has become the primary audience for the events it covers. The NYC media landscape is at thecity.nyc.
Also:The Daily Mash.
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SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/
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