Media Center (at API) Conference data dump. Very pithy quote: “The question of whether ‘mainstream media’ will survive, or whether it should survive, or in what form, or how, is irrelevant. I don’t care. I’m sick of arguments about that.
What I care about is whether journalism – the process of hunting down factual information and verifying it – survives and thrives somewhere, somehow.”
I haven’t tried it yet,
but I think it’s time to look at podcasting a bit more closely. To that end, I’ve ordered an iTalk and we’ll see what happens.
Sad though not altogether shocking
news this morning that last night writer Hunter S. Thompson committed suicide at his ranch in Woody Creek, Colorado.
It’s too bad that newspapers
don’t take their role of encouraging public debate more seriously. In fact they damage it by hiding articles behind a subscription barrier. Otherwise I could point Canadian readers to a very good article in today’s Globe and Mail by John Ibbitson that takes religious groups to task for essentially lying to the Canadian public as gay marriage becomes legal in this country. As it stands, you can only read the first two grafs, which hardly gets to the point.
Dan Gillmor’s latest
is entitled Newspapers: Open Your Archives. From his new Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism, Etc blog, which is looking great so far.
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