--- In [email protected], Adrian Miles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> around the 6/9/05 Jay dedman mentioned about Re: [videoblogging] 
> Gov't always wins the election that:
> >maybe this is a differnce between US and Danish news.
> >US news has become almost completely unbelievable.
> >i believe that videoblogging/first-hand reports lend credibility.
> >people can play with reality (Nathan's "Modern Single Dad")...but for
> >the most part, i see most videoblogs as being extremely open,
> >sensitive, and believable.
> >funny you brought of the example of  media during the American
> >revolution..."Common Sense" by Thomas Paine was one of the most
> >influential citizen journalism who handed out basically a Zine.
> >It told the truth that traditional media wasnt/couldnt do.
> 
> yes, this discussion is confusing US *tv* news which is generally 
> intensely inward looking and quite shallow as all news. It isn't. 
> Here I watch an international orientated news at 6.30, then another 
> one at 9.30, and if i want sustained current affairs I have late 
> night live on radio from 10pm (people like Chomsky regular guests) or 
> Lateline on national TV (who have similar regular guests satellited 
> in from around the world). it isn't better, it is different.
> 
> Also generalisations don't work. The New York Times is still a 
> qualilty broadsheet, those who want and seek deeper information can, 
> and do, just because TV has had to evolve to a banal common 
> denominator it doesn't mean all media.
> 
> Finally, I'm a member of the KKK and I videoblog things that 
> represent my political views. I call myself a citizen journalist, 
> since videoblogging is pure citizen journalism (being a member of the 
> KKK, any argument about purity appeals), 

Does KKK stand for something different in Australia than in the U.S.A.?


>can anyone explain to me how 
> this is *better* journalism than that practiced by someone at least 
> trained in some professional practice, a code of ethics, who (even 
> though it is dumb) at least thinks stories have 'two' sides?

I thought objectivity was the significant factor in professional
journalism (getting mulitple sources, corraboration, etc.)

  -- Enric

> -- 
> cheers
> Adrian Miles
> 
> hypertext.RMIT
> <URL:http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vlog>




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