Comments on: Bloggers need journalism to survive http://savethemedia.com/2009/05/13/bloggers-need-journalism-to-survive/ A veteran journalist blogs about the new media revolution. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:48:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Syracuse Biz Buzz Social Media Conference | Save the Media http://savethemedia.com/2009/05/13/bloggers-need-journalism-to-survive/comment-page-1/#comment-34610 Syracuse Biz Buzz Social Media Conference | Save the Media Sun, 23 May 2010 19:16:42 +0000 http://savethemedia.com/?p=1353#comment-34610 [...] media to build your brand. Syracuse University professor Jill Hurst-Wahl, who has guest blogged on Save the Media, will talk about developing and maintaining your reputation using social media. (Read the full [...]<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('34610','Syracuse Biz Buzz Social Media Conference | Save the Media'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('34610','Syracuse Biz Buzz Social Media Conference | Save the Media','[...] media to build your brand. Syracuse University professor Jill Hurst-Wahl, who has guest blogged on Save the Media, will talk about developing and maintaining your reputation using social media. (Read the full [...]'); return false;">Quote</a></div> [...] media to build your brand. Syracuse University professor Jill Hurst-Wahl, who has guest blogged on Save the Media, will talk about developing and maintaining your reputation using social media. (Read the full [...]
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]]> By: Duncan Kinney http://savethemedia.com/2009/05/13/bloggers-need-journalism-to-survive/comment-page-1/#comment-15211 Duncan Kinney Fri, 15 May 2009 04:16:08 +0000 http://savethemedia.com/?p=1353#comment-15211 Talk about trotting out all the tired worn out old tropes of the MSM vs the world. Your definition of journalist is becomingly increasingly irrelevant. Check out Eat Sleep Publish’s Ultimate Guide to Newspaper Curmudgeon Talking Points.

http://eatsleeppublish.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-newspaper-curmudgeon-talking-points/#more-207

“7A: “A blog is not a tool for journalism, it is for people in their pajamas writing about their cats from their basements.”

Whoever you are talking to is suffering from a very common misconception about what blogging is. They are conflating the content with the medium.

In other words, a blog is really just a publishing platform that makes it really, uncannily easy to share things on the internet. It can be used for journalism as easily as it can be used for talking about cats or for sharing tips on how to live well.

With the advent of blogging, the definition of a journalist has become rather murky. When anyone can commit an act of journalism at any time, do you really need to be employed by a news organization to be a journalist? Of course you don’t.

That might rankle you a bit. But it won’t go away if you ignore it.”

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]]> By: bloggingmom67 http://savethemedia.com/2009/05/13/bloggers-need-journalism-to-survive/comment-page-1/#comment-15193 bloggingmom67 Thu, 14 May 2009 23:17:11 +0000 http://savethemedia.com/?p=1353#comment-15193 <a href='#comment-15154'>@Joseph Madden</a> - Good points. Like you analogy of the "coffee shop where you see the newspaper torn to shreds and stepped on." -- Gina<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('15193','bloggingmom67'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('15193','bloggingmom67','<a href=\'#comment-15154\'>@Joseph Madden<\/a> - \r\n\r\nGood points. Like you analogy of the \"coffee shop where you see the newspaper torn to shreds and stepped on.\"\r\n\r\n-- Gina'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @Joseph Madden –

Good points. Like you analogy of the “coffee shop where you see the newspaper torn to shreds and stepped on.”

– Gina

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]]> By: Joseph Madden http://savethemedia.com/2009/05/13/bloggers-need-journalism-to-survive/comment-page-1/#comment-15154 Joseph Madden Thu, 14 May 2009 06:16:00 +0000 http://savethemedia.com/?p=1353#comment-15154 I agree a majority of bloggers are opinionist. The social mediums available for the masses has allowed more opinion to rule than fact. Sadly without the journalist and scholars, we who share our opinion would have nothing to be opinionated about. Blogs and social networks are like visiting the local coffee shop back in the day (when the news was the newspaper and local tv) to talk about the news and weather. But more and more of it is like going to the coffee shop where you see the newspaper torn to shreds and stepped on, rather than piled on the counter for anyone to read. Supporting Journalists nowadays as sources of facts requires supporting the news mediums for which they report for... many of the web 2.0 users are skeptical of news that has been turn to commentary from the "editorial journalists" that seem to be to mainstay of the news now adays in the USA.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('15154','Joseph Madden'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('15154','Joseph Madden','I agree a majority of bloggers are opinionist. The social mediums available for the masses has allowed more opinion to rule than fact. Sadly without the journalist and scholars, we who share our opinion would have nothing to be opinionated about. \r\n\r\nBlogs and social networks are like visiting the local coffee shop back in the day (when the news was the newspaper and local tv) to talk about the news and weather. But more and more of it is like going to the coffee shop where you see the newspaper torn to shreds and stepped on, rather than piled on the counter for anyone to read.\r\n\r\nSupporting Journalists nowadays as sources of facts requires supporting the news mediums for which they report for... many of the web 2.0 users are skeptical of news that has been turn to commentary from the \"editorial journalists\" that seem to be to mainstay of the news now adays in the USA.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I agree a majority of bloggers are opinionist. The social mediums available for the masses has allowed more opinion to rule than fact. Sadly without the journalist and scholars, we who share our opinion would have nothing to be opinionated about.

Blogs and social networks are like visiting the local coffee shop back in the day (when the news was the newspaper and local tv) to talk about the news and weather. But more and more of it is like going to the coffee shop where you see the newspaper torn to shreds and stepped on, rather than piled on the counter for anyone to read.

Supporting Journalists nowadays as sources of facts requires supporting the news mediums for which they report for… many of the web 2.0 users are skeptical of news that has been turn to commentary from the “editorial journalists” that seem to be to mainstay of the news now adays in the USA.

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