New Media
Well, it's been a while since I've posted. I missed class on Monday because of car problems, so I may be a little behind everyone, but I find the topic of "new media" to be interesting. As a soon-to-be journalist, I found the Weblog article to be especially interesting. I agree with the article's overall point that blogging is not journalism.
"It is unrealistic to apply the standards of journalism to bloggers who rarely have the time or resources to actually report the news."
It was good to hear that bloggers won't be taking all the journalism jobs, but it was also something new for me to think about how blogging is effecting journalism. I agree that most bloggers don't have the resources to report news adequately, but it was interesting to explore the impact they are having and think about how things may develop further in the future. It was weird to think about staying in the journalism field for fifty years and the changes I would have to go through to adapt to developing technology and media.
The other articles were interesting as well, just not as personal. It was interesting to see how many components of "new" media have been around for quite a while.
posted by Rachel @ 6:59 AM
6 Comments:
We'll be taking this up in detail Friday, so hopefully you'll be in class then---and it would be nice to see Chelsea and Matt, too.
Some issues to deal with: (1) despite Blood's objections, are journalism standards going to be applied to bloggers anyway; (2) in the time since she wrote, some folks have become professional bloggers---presumably, they have the time; (3) journalism seems to be embracing blogging.
(1) Sometimes. However, if a person's blog is like our class blogs, no one is going to mistake it for news.
(2) Good point, but somehow I still don't see it as journalism. Don't they usually put their opinions in it? It's not edited by anyone. They aren't paid for it. (Not that all journalists are paid by any means. . .)
(3) This is partially due, in my opinion, to the popularity of gonzo journalism (ex. Hunter S. Thompson's famous for this) that many young people are interested in. Plus, there is a lack of trust in media big time. Are "regular" people appealing to the public as more trustworthing than newsreporters and journalists who work for big companies????
Julie, many bloggers appeal to precisely that ethos: they position themselves against "the media" or "the mainstream media."
what sort of materials does one need to be a journalist? A pad, a pen, some questions and a story right, Oh and some place to publish right? so if the local bloggers start taking on stories, then they are doing the news aren't they? see ya in class, Rachel you should talk more in class, you make really good points. I hate being the only loud mouth. I want to listen more.
Yeah, I always have issues speaking up in class-I'm kind of an introvert. And I've felt like crap lately-just can't get over a tough cold. And sometimes I forget my thoughts when I listen to other people and start thinking about what they're saying. Writing is so much easier than speaking. Anyway, I guess technically it's true that all journalists need is pen, paper, and a story. However, after spending almost 4 years being "trained" to be a journalist, I'd like to think there's more to it than that. Technically bloggers report news-news is just facts on stuff that is going on-but the problem i have with viewing it as credible journalism is that it may not be news that effects a larger audience, it's harder to keep biases out and they don't always look at both sides like journalists are supposed to do. I think blogs do a great job of supplementing the news, explaining it, taking sides, getting people more interested, showing a local angle, and maybe reporting on things that media "gatekeepers" don't publish, but they just don't have the resources professional journalists have to collect the news. Now if bloggers could get press passes to the white house and stuff like that, it might be another story. I think journalism is embracing blogging because journalists are supposed to report without bias (which rarely actually happens) but blogs gives them more freedom to explain what they really think about what's going on-or even if they don't blog themselves, they see that people are taking their news stories and discussing them further-that just feels good to know you're making a contribution like that. Anyway, it should be an interesting discussion tomorrow.
Good stuff. I'm glad we got to a lot of this today---especially the idea of the press pass or credential. I'm sorry you didn't say some of this is class.
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