Remember, folks: Jayson Blair had credentials, as did the model rocketeers at Dateline NBC. Danah Boyd is right: some journos are running scared.
Not Handling It Very Well
[ via Kaye Trammell's So This Is Mass Communication? ] Some journos aren't handling the bloggers' encroachment into areas that are Theirs By Divine Right very well:
Remember, folks: Jayson Blair had credentials, as did the model rocketeers at Dateline NBC. Danah Boyd is right: some journos are running scared.
Remember, folks: Jayson Blair had credentials, as did the model rocketeers at Dateline NBC. Danah Boyd is right: some journos are running scared.
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There is room for both journalists and bloggers in the news sphere: journalists have the training, resources and reputational capital (both on an individual level and as a member of an institution), while bloggers have the passion and often have the "inside track" and domain knowledge that a journalist wouldn't have.
I think that some of the manistream journos have their knickers in a twist over the the "citizen journalist" label that has been applied to bloggers. The funny thing is that it's the media that's using that label more than bloggers themselves. While there are a few examples of bloggers reporting hard news (I think your own coverage of the PJNet conference is an example), most bloggers are more like citizen Op-Ed writers or columnists.
Jim Elve