Within the last decade we now have gained the ability to sidestep their propaganda through the internet. Sucks to be them.
Posted on 05/31/2005 5:58:01 AM PDT by OESY
The news business is in trouble. Readership and viewership are declining, public trust is plummeting, and advertisers are beginning to wonder whether they're getting their money's worth. This has led people to think about what blogger and tech journalist Doc Searls calls business models for "news without newspapers," an approach to reporting and disseminating news that doesn't depend on layers of editors for publication, and big ads from carmakers for funding. Nobody's sure just how to do that yet.
That's likely to change, though. Already we're seeing a lot of reporting from non-journalists, where the "reporter" is just whoever happens to be on the scene, and online, when news happens. Given the ubiquity of digital cameras, cellphones, and wireless Internet access, that's likely to become more common, making the kind of distributed newsgathering seen during the Indian Ocean tsunami the norm not the exception.
Quite a few bloggers are moving beyond opinion journalism into firsthand reporting. On my own InstaPundit.com weblog, I feature firsthand reports, often with photos, from places like Uzbekistan and Afghanistan.... Other bloggers have broken stories from Iraq (involving both alleged war crimes by U.S. troops and large anti-terror marches left uncovered by American media), from the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, and from Canada's government corruption scandals.
...At the BlogNashville conference..., I demonstrated the power of quick-and-dirty digital video by putting together a 15-minute Web documentary on the proceedings and posting it the next day, all done with the video-camera feature on my under-$300 Sony digital still camera....
Pajamas Media... is recruiting a network of independent journalists around the world (and especially in less-democratic countries) and working on ways to support them financially, legally, and technologically. Others are working on news-aggregation technology that will automatically gather blog posts on particular topics, allowing people to customize their news....
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Pajamas Media... is recruiting a network of independent journalists around the world (and especially in less-democratic countries) and working on ways to support them financially, legally, and technologically. Others are working on news-aggregation technology that will automatically gather blog posts on particular topics, allowing people to customize their news....
Journalist held for seeking truth on Tiananmen killings
The Times ^ | 5/31/05 | Jane Macartney
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1413401/posts
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The very best reporters recognize this immediately, and start or leave for the internet organizations.
Newspapers used to be more than society rags, but if they aren't, they can disappear.
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How does this fit with:
Trouble at the ODP (Open Directory Project)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1413084/posts
That why I will never again pay for a newspaper. Too political, too controlled, too corrupt and insipid beyond belief. Far better, and more rewarding, to pick up a discarded Sunday paper (for the coupons) in a Starbucks. Reading discarded newspapers and magazines is sort of a hobby for me now. Happy coupon clipping everybody!
Thanks gave it a quick scan.
Free is good, volunteer run is good, BUT if it starts to fall apart maybe they need to hire people to do this, and if it means I have to pay money to use it...I will. (assuuming it's not to much)
They are doing a p*sspoor job of reporting
I don't know how many times someone has come up to me and aked if I've seen this(whatever this is), Yes I did see it...last week.
What do you mean by "this" precisely? I missed your point.
Do you mean you have observed very poor reporting?
Within the last decade we now have gained the ability to sidestep their propaganda through the internet. Sucks to be them.
People I work with know I follow "the news" so they are always showing me stories. "This" mean whatever story you care to mention.
"Do you mean you have observed very poor reporting?"
Yes and old news also.
Glutter: Awaiting A Democratic Hong Kong
Filed under: Blogger Profiles — andrea @ 6:44 pm
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices/?p=192
For the next few weeks, we’ll be offering profiles of bloggers nominated for the Reporters Sans Frontières weblog awards. This profile is part of the series. Please visit the RSF voting page and vote for your favorite blogs. - Your friendly editors.
Glutter is arguably the most vocal voice from Hong Kong in the English language blogosphere.
A native of Hong Kong, Yan Sham-Shackleton, the blogger behind Glutter, started blogging the day after she took part in a half a million people march against a pending legislation which, if enacted, would threaten free speech in Hong Kong.
The government eventually back down on the law. But Sham-Shackleton had continued to write relentlessly on free speech issue and tracking the ups and downs of democractic development in Hong Kong since then. At times, her blog would also feature news on human rights violations in China.
“Because I am afraid that if we don’t talk about it now, if we don’t fight for and protect our freedom of press and freedom of speech, we will not have it anymore, and we can’t protest every day nor is Hong Kong a democracy, so we have to work towards this goal in as many channels possible,” she wrote recently when she reflected on why she blogs.
Her blog is also a personal record in history where she hopes her writing will “turn into a historical record of the Hong Kong Story.”
But Glutter is more than an aspiration for free speech, democracy and the rule of law in Hong Kong.
It is also about showing the world graphic design, documentary-making, art, music, travel and women issues from a Hong Kong perspective.
Lately Glutter has been featuring musicians, t-shirt designs and musings on her life in a new apartment.
“Blogging is internet culture and the internet culture is a global culture,” she said recently in a local television news program in Hong Kong.
“You can have conversations with people in all over the world.”
As for her thoughts about being a freedom blog nominee herself, she wrote:“I am not here to “beat,” or “Compete,” with the 59 blogs. There is no real “Competition,” between us because none of us are working against each other. In fact we’re all working towards the same thing together. We are a team. All of us in our own way are trying to “Defend the Right of Free Expression,” through the blogging medium.”
However, most may NOT realize the same is now true for news on the Internet. When the truth gets out, I have NO DOUBT whatsoever, having read dozens and dozens of summaries coming from the WEF in Davos in January of this year, that there is ARE a number of news organizations coming to grips with the power of the Internet and are concerned that too much truth, is something that must and will be controlled, in 'free speech' nations. We already know the efforts of the Chinese government to suppress.
From blogs at the UN, to the poor blogger in Florida that first challenged Eason Jordan on his comment at Davos about the military targeting journalists. Had that blogger not been a) questioning it's accuracy, and b) johnny on the spot with posting on his blog, and c) seen by the world immediately, we may never have seen Jordans resignation, though he is still very much involved in 'creating' the news that is needed to adjust world opinion to match that of the anti-American CNN, UN, etc. (We also know that big-Google-boys were at the Davos *meeting*).
Perhaps you also remember Bret Stephens of the WSJ Online, who was also at the conference, restraint from taking on the Eason Jordan issue.. or 'kerfuffle' as it was called.. The complicity of Stephens revealed or unmasked, the WSJ, IMO..
There are actually two answers to that:
- It's a labor of love, done by amateurs.
- What do we have a CIA for, if not to support this sort of thing?
Pajamas Media... is recruiting a network of independent journalists around the world (and especially in less-democratic countries) and working on ways to support them financially, legally, and technologically.
From blogs at the UN, to the poor blogger in Florida that first challenged Eason Jordan on his comment at Davos about the military targeting journalists. Had that blogger not been a) questioning it's accuracy, and b) johnny on the spot with posting on his blog, and c) seen by the world immediately, we may never have seen Jordans resignation, though he is still very much involved in 'creating' the news that is needed to adjust world opinion to match that of the anti-American CNN, UN, etc. (We also know that big-Google-boys were at the Davos *meeting*).
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