Le Monde’s crisis-deviating editorial model yields deeper reporting than the Times
Evidence
Whereas the New York Times seems guided principally by crisis and newsworthiness, Le Monde tries to record or at least to note most of what takes place abroad. Opinion and fact are not so rigorously separated as they seem (formally, at least) to be in the Times: the result, when stories or issues of unusual complexity are concerned, is a far greater flexibility in length, detail, sophistication of reporting. Le Monde in its reporting suggests worldliness, the Times a grave, rather selective concern. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 292
Categorization
- DEFINE: Contrasts two editorial epistemologies: crisis-and-newsworthiness selection versus comprehensive world recording, and their reporting consequences.
- XREF: Echoes the ‘Communication as Culture’ distinction between transmission and ritual views of communication, and the information-overload hostility theme in the reader’s silence work.