http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/the-tribe-known-as-the-professional-press/ Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:36:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/the-tribe-known-as-the-professional-press/#comment-194223 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:36:35 +0000 http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/the-tribe-known-as-the-professional-press/#comment-194223 [...] Lots of people have written about the changes that are taking place in the older types of media, but Terry Heaton links to a post by Jay Rosen that is significant.  We’re early in the rise of of semi-pro journalism but we’re well into the decline and of an old way of life within the tribe of professional journalists. I call them a tribe because they share a culture and a sense of destiny, and because they think they own the press– that is theirs somehow because they dominate the practice. [...] […] Lots of people have written about the changes that are taking place in the older types of media, but Terry Heaton links to a post by Jay Rosen that is significant.  We’re early in the rise of of semi-pro journalism but we’re well into the decline and of an old way of life within the tribe of professional journalists. I call them a tribe because they share a culture and a sense of destiny, and because they think they own the press– that is theirs somehow because they dominate the practice. […]

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