Citizen journalism: What is that anyway?
Why didn’t we think of this before? All this time we could have fired those trained, experienced reporters who expect salaries and benefits, and then turned the news gathering over to these citizen journalists. We could have closed – indeed, never opened – 300-plus journalism schools. Let the students learn gender-based world politics critiques instead. You know, something more universally useless. Simply put, every week we could have saved millions of dollars of precious advertiser money, and we know how critical that money is.
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Somebody is really threatened by a bunch of citizens committing random acts of journalism. You were no doubt also threatened by the extinction of dinosaurs, right?
Comment by Ron Ross — July 2, 2009 @ 4:43 pm
Yes, that dino thing did outrage me, but I was too late on arrival to do anything. I’ll work on that.
Neither am I threatened by random acts of journalism, but it’s not journalism. It’s collecting information, pouring in lots of bias and interpretation, and spreading it out as fact and calling it journalism. That’s not journalism, though, as you might note, it’s everywhere these days and it is called journalism.
You are very clever. Nice shot.
Comment by remedialacademy — July 4, 2009 @ 9:56 pm