http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2006/11/28/the-ghettoisation-of-citizen-journalism/ A conversation. Tue, 15 May 2012 09:53:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2006/11/28/the-ghettoisation-of-citizen-journalism/#comment-611 Paul Bradshaw Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:30:00 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.wordpress.com/2006/11/28/the-ghettoisation-of-citizen-journalism/#comment-611 Feel free to email me, but in the meantime here's my responses:Do I think "that blogging is journalism?" Some of it, yes. Do I think "that it is fair to journalists who earned four year degrees and know the ethics (whether they practice them or not)to be over-ridden by bloggers who claim to have the "real news"? Or do you think that blogging is a more direct source of information rather than reading it from a journalist who may be censored?"Firstly, your question is loaded and badly phrased, giving me only two options, both of which I disagree with. I would disagree that graduates are "over-ridden" by bloggers - in fact any graduate with any sense would be blogging themselves. Bloggers are hardly taking over the news industry, but rather providing an alternative or complementary news service to a public increasingly distrusting of time-starved or lazy journalists who simply rewrite press releases. They are also a great way to hear from people 'on the ground', whether that's people living through the Iraq war, troops fighting there, or police, nurses, teachers and scientists who know more about topical issues than journalists and politicians.I can waffle on about this at greater length if you want to contact me directly. Feel free to email me, but in the meantime here’s my responses:Do I think “that blogging is journalism?” Some of it, yes. Do I think “that it is fair to journalists who earned four year degrees and know the ethics (whether they practice them or not)to be over-ridden by bloggers who claim to have the “real news”? Or do you think that blogging is a more direct source of information rather than reading it from a journalist who may be censored?”Firstly, your question is loaded and badly phrased, giving me only two options, both of which I disagree with. I would disagree that graduates are “over-ridden” by bloggers – in fact any graduate with any sense would be blogging themselves. Bloggers are hardly taking over the news industry, but rather providing an alternative or complementary news service to a public increasingly distrusting of time-starved or lazy journalists who simply rewrite press releases. They are also a great way to hear from people ‘on the ground’, whether that’s people living through the Iraq war, troops fighting there, or police, nurses, teachers and scientists who know more about topical issues than journalists and politicians.I can waffle on about this at greater length if you want to contact me directly.

]]> http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2006/11/28/the-ghettoisation-of-citizen-journalism/#comment-610 Anonymous Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:12:00 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.wordpress.com/2006/11/28/the-ghettoisation-of-citizen-journalism/#comment-610 I'm writing a paper about this so I need some opinionsDo you think that blogging is journalism? Do you think that it is fair to journalists who earned four year degrees and know the ethics (whether they practice them or not)to be over-ridden by bloggers who claim to have the "real news"? Or do you think that blogging is a more direct source of information rather than reading it from a journalist who may be censored? I’m writing a paper about this so I need some opinionsDo you think that blogging is journalism? Do you think that it is fair to journalists who earned four year degrees and know the ethics (whether they practice them or not)to be over-ridden by bloggers who claim to have the “real news”? Or do you think that blogging is a more direct source of information rather than reading it from a journalist who may be censored?

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