Blog tip: The increasing irrelevance of journalists when compared to bloggers
06 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Media
“… journalism and old media (like newspapers) were primarily concerned with two things: Breaking news (the latest developments which have value the quicker they are reported accurately) and Analysis.
Increasingly, with the rise of blogosphere, the function of analysis is becoming democratised because the wisdom of all the blogosphere is better than the analysis of the few journalists - no matter how good they are
What is more interesting is: the function of “news reporting” is also leaning towards blogosphere.
Admittedly, many blogs like my own blog OpenGardens are not about news i.e. we are not geared to report the latest developments in the industry. We focus only on analysis
However, the news of feedburner’s acquisition was reported by Sam Sethi - a blogger and confirmed by Mike Arrington (another blogger). Previously, Google’s acquisition of YouTube was also reported by Techcrunch and Mike Arrington talks about consequent techcrunch bashing where he says: I am surprised that traditional media is starting to see TechCrunch as newsworthy enough to attack. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.”
Read the whole entry on Open Garden
- Tomas
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