Reference Arty: Internet users transformed into news reporters
Exerpt: Telling someone they are going to be a citizen journalist is like telling them they are going to be a citizen dentist; it requires training and the average person just can’t do it.”
Who ever this reporter is he must be dumb as a rock. Not only can the average person do reporting, he can do it BETTER ….WAYYYY better than the professionals. The professionals are obviously many times wed by economic gain to politicians and otherwise. I have MUCH more faith in the amateurs.
Of course there is always the chance he’s just worried about his job security. He should be.  I don’t buy a single newspaper. I studiously do not buy products that support liberal / socialist causes. Let’s get real. There is a bias in the antique media that is super lefty leftist. This is a product I have no interest in supporting.
I suggest that if this reporter is indeed worried about his job that he go train to be a dentist. A dentist actually contributes to GNP, unlike professional reporters.  In addition a dentist induces less pain than these professional propagandist journalists. ( LITERALLY !! )
In a related story KFTY-TV channel 50 in Santa Rosa California is experimenting with distributed journalism.
Exerpt: So the next step in Channel 50’s evolution will be a nationally watched experiment in local television coverage. Over the next few months, the station’s management plans to ask people in the community — its independent filmmakers, its college students and professors, its civic leaders and others — to provide programming for the station.
Original arty= Tonight at 11, news by neighbors
A rather comical comment in the article was:
People come to CBS News because it’s a trusted source of information that they know has been vetted,” said Mike Sims, director of news and operations at CBS.com. “That’s why we’ve been slower to move into citizen journalism.
……of course that’s a real knee slapper / belly acher when you remember RatherGate.
This is going to get really exciting. In the past you could have a limited number of Antique Media people on the payroll and corner the market. Even today its possible to push the news agenda….ala global warming. However its going to be really tough to corner this new journalistic market.  There is going to be a whole brand of politics that is cornered and cornholed by this new process. Participate actively in Wikipedia for a little while to find out why! Self policing does a super job and generates very valuable content.  My reaction to this journalist lamenting? Get out the chalk dust lubricant, I want to watch the old guard reporters scream bloody murder.
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