Here's an interesting video shot on blogging and MSM (Main Stream Media) at the Chicago School of Journalism with a panel after the showing of "Good Luck and Good Night":
http://www.thenationaldebate.com/video/GNGL_Q&A_HiRes.mov or http://tinyurl.com/dxycf Here's the article source: http://www.thenationaldebate.com/blog/archives/2005/10/the_last_thing.html or http://tinyurl.com/8mqb6 Here's JD Lasica on blogging principals, "Some principles for the new era": http://www.participate.net/node/371 -- Enric --- In [email protected], "Khoo, Joan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think we have all come to a realization that journalism as we know it > can and is biased and generalized. The difference between traditional > journalism and blogging is the perspective. We expect bloggers to > express their views and to some extent, expect their views to be biased > towards themselves. However we expect traditional journalism to be > unbiased and precise, which is quite impossible in itself as humans are > not able to be completely without biased. > > I personally prefer to read different perspectives on the same subject > and to come to my own conclusion (ie different blogger perspectives on > the current events in France) than to hear my six o'clock news summarize > the events and underlying reasons for me as I'm sure it would have some > kind of spin on it. > > Cheers, > Joan - www.rantingsofjoan.blogspot.com > > > Message: 18 > Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 18:20:02 -0500 > From: Jay dedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Re: watching personal videos > > > Exactly, and the same for the average blog entry. Jay was setting > things > > up to mean 'journalism == lazy, unresearched stories; blogs == The > > Truth(tm)'. The generalization is very far from what's going on. Some > > journalistic stories are not fact-checked, but they are in the > minority. > > Some blog entries are great investigative journalism, but they are in > the > > minority. > > okay..funny thing was...i was trying to say there is a balance between > the truth in blogs and the truth in tradiotional media. > think of the last time a traditional news outlet covered something you > knew intimately (ie videblogging). > were all the facts correct? > is there a blog that may have the facts more correct becasue the > person focuses just on that subject? > > this isnt about blogs vs traditional media. > its about acknowledging that the flow of info is changing. > bloggers if anything are fact checkers. > > > Blogging in itself isn't more true than any other medium. It's just as > > easy to lie to promote an agenda on a blog - probably easier since you > > don't have to try and sneak your lie past an editor. > > again, I think this may be a matter of culture. > Andreas is in Denmark where their traditional media may be more secure. > in the US where i live, you can SEE the spin in every story reported. > this is why the Daily Show is one of the most popular shows on US > TV...by shining a light on the absurdity of US news coverage. > having an editor may mean you MUST twist the truth. > > blogs do not equal truth. > my point was simply that blogs help tell the story. > showing my bias, bloggers such as http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/ do > a great job piecing together the facts of a story....you can judge his > credibility by going through his archives. Josh Marshall did a recent > group of postings on the specific flow of events of the Bush > admnistration manufacturing the story of the Niger/nuclear/Iraq > connection. > when i worked at CNN....trust me...we didnt have time to do weeks of > research...you find other people to tell the story...and fact check > the best you can. > But bloggers are telling the story....and are now can affect how > traditional journalism works. > > wait till we get more video coming from important events around the > world. > i would kill to see videoblogs from the rioting in Paris. > who are these people...what are their motivations?...what does it sound > like? > > jay > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
