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Friday, January 28, 2005
Dead herring sandwich 
| | I hadn't witnessed such public expressions of high self-esteem since the last time I attended a journalism awards ceremony. |
| | The premature triumphalism of some bloggers indicates that they haven't paid attention to how Webified journalists have become... |
| | I thought, Well... okay... makes some kind of sense. Then I got to the end of the piece, where Jack kindly provides copious quotage and linkage to responses, including fisks from blournalists Jay Rosen, Ed Cone and Jeff Jarvis. |
| | One line, amongs zillions, that stands out for me is this, by Jay: |
| | Bloggers won? Not something I said, implied or believe. "The forces of denial are in retreat" refers not to the tension between bloggers and journalists but to a conflict within mainstream journalism between those who think journalism-as-is can be re-purposed for the Web, and those who think far more dramatic changes are going to be required. |
| | In other words, we're missing the bigger story — the story that matters. The Bloggers vs. Journalists story is a big fat red herring, and always has been. The only market logic that has ever worked, or ever will work, is AND, not OR. (Even competitition has AND logic.) Jack points that out, but also suggests that "how Webified journalists have become" is taking care of business. |
| | The real conflicts are between old systems that everybody knows and new systems we're just starting to figure out. |
| | Six months ago, I would have said the main conflict is between journalists and their employers. But the number of publishers and broadcasters who see the need to embrace the Web — especially the Live Web we call the blogosphere — is rapidly increasing. The big questions now are no longer If or Why?, but How? |
| | Meanwhile, Us. vs. Them herring might be tasty, as stories go; but it has all the nutritive value of gas. |
The case for Iraqi bloggers, cont'd
| | Some highly experienced journalists are loath to spend long periods of time cooped up in a compound in the Green Zone, unable for security reasons to travel freely around the country to find out what's actually happening, while all the time waiting for an insurgent's mortar shell to blow them sky high. |
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