Comments on: Catching up with the news http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/catching-up-with-the-news/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:11:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Rick Calvert http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/catching-up-with-the-news/#comment-67761 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:43:31 +0000 http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/catching-up-with-the-news/#comment-67761 I can't help but think this is just the latest old media attempt to marginalize citizen journalism and new media and conflate/confuse it with user generated content. They are not the same thing. There are lots of people who practice real journalism online and via blogs that give traditional news outlets a real run for their money with a fraction of the resources. Photo journalist Michael Yon http://www.michaelyon-online.com for example who has spent the better part of the last three years living in Iraq with American, British and Iraqi forces who is completely independent and funded entirely by reader donations. Last year one of his photos was nominated for a very prestigious award. There are tens if not hundreds of thousands of other quality amateur journalists out there scooping and out reporting old media every day. The fact is people don't go to DIGG, Delicious, and Reddit to get their hard-hitting news. It is kind of like comparing Everybody Loves Raymond to Meet the Press. Blog on! Rick Calvert, CEM CEO & Co-founder BlogWorld & New Media Expo I can’t help but think this is just the latest old media attempt to marginalize citizen journalism and new media and conflate/confuse it with user generated content.

They are not the same thing. There are lots of people who practice real journalism online and via blogs that give traditional news outlets a real run for their money with a fraction of the resources. Photo journalist Michael Yon http://www.michaelyon-online.com for example who has spent the better part of the last three years living in Iraq with American, British and Iraqi forces who is completely independent and funded entirely by reader donations.

Last year one of his photos was nominated for a very prestigious award. There are tens if not hundreds of thousands of other quality amateur journalists out there scooping and out reporting old media every day.

The fact is people don’t go to DIGG, Delicious, and Reddit to get their hard-hitting news. It is kind of like comparing Everybody Loves Raymond to Meet the Press.

Blog on!
Rick Calvert, CEM
CEO & Co-founder
BlogWorld & New Media Expo

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