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Re: Friday, February 7, 2003
Please don't take this as a comment on the blog phenomenon or a personal flame. I've been reading Dave's scripting.com since it came online and your blog for a year or two. What I don't understand is the discussion of whether blogs will replace/destroy/supplement journalism. IMHO blogs are nothing more than written words. That can be a diary, serial fiction, coverage of a hobby or interest (which is where I think the discussion re Journalism vs Blogs really originates), or any other kind of writing. The only difference is the medium (online) and to some extent, the temporal aspect. I don't see anything that challenges Journalism nor should Journalists fear bloggers. With our poorly educated population I would hope everybody would want better writers and more informed readers, but I don't see how discussing the implications of cheap publishing on the printed media is any different than the original web rush was to entrenched financial interests. I need to express my self better, but the 15 minutes I have for lunch and over eager Internet monitoring by my employer (which reported a 58% increase in earnings over a year ago) prevents me from putting much effort into writing a coherent thesis ATM. Is it possible that focussing on the entrenched Journalists is a block on the possibility of using blogs to improve writing and challenging the reader and society? I guess I wonder why you peopel like you, Dave and Gillmor (well ok, not Gillmor) just ignore the Journalists. They don't have your interests in mind nor do they do a decent job of informing. The bottom line is the bottom line. There are responses to this message:
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