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Re:Watch what you print....It goes much farther back than this new-fangled web thing. This is ancient Usenet wisdom. I still find my flames and n00bness from the early 1980s mortifying, but there they are, courtesy of Google News. (Sheesh. Google news f's up everything good about Deja News, but they can't lose the embarrassing skeltons in my Usenet closet.)
I found an interesting article from a journalistic perspective about the persistence of stuff YOU disseminate on the net.
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Google News' 'right to be unfair'A couple of people have maintained that Google has the "right" to be unfair, as if that's the issue here. It isn't.
First, there's a public trust that goes with being the No. 1 company in any media field. As I wrote two years ago in a story that praised Google, the public is drawn to Google because it is fair, aboveboard, and won't accept secret payments for keyword searches and other payola that's now routine in the search industry. Google is holding itself out as an honest search company ("do no evil").
Second, the rights issue is irrelevant. Google News itself says it's trying to be fair and balanced, and if it isn't, it has to go back and look at its algorithms (that's what Google News' chief scientist told me this morning).
They're trying to get it right. Now they just have to figure out how to get there.
jd lasica (the article's author)
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Photojournalistic integrity is a concern, too.This is very much targetted toward a specific market.
There's also the issue of photojournalists using Photoshop to alter their shots. Publications and organizations who issue awards like the Pulitzer will want to be sure the photographers submit what they say the submit -- unaltered photos, in this case. Editors can also be guilty of ordering manipulations.
Some altered photos I remember:- "In 1982... National Geographic ran a computer altered photo of the Pyramids at Giza on it's cover." Re: Photography in the Age of Falsification
- Gulf War Conflict, soldier facing a local with his rifle; main subjects were repositioned and people in the background were cloned. Re: http://www.zonezero.com/magazine/articles/altered
/ altered.html - The couple in some US State I don't remember, they had septuplets or something; the wife's teeth were extremely whitened compared to real life.
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In other news...
Lawsuit Filed Against RIAA Amnesty Program
Contributed by Mike on Wednesday, September 10th, 2003 @ 03:00AM
from the coming-from-all-angles dept.
Even more backlash against the RIAA. I'm really surprised that this hasn't gotten more attention. The story is being squeezed in on some copies of the AP report about the RIAA's settlement with the 12-year-old "threat to the future of the music industry", but a California lawyer has apparently filed a lawsuit against the RIAA (warning: PDF file) for their "amnesty program", claiming that it is "unlawful, unfair and deceptive". The lawyer points out that the RIAA does not provide any actual amnesty in their offer. If the offer really is deceptive, then it seems like the sort of thing the government should step in and point out - but it is nice to at least see a lawsuit bringing more attention to the ridiculousness of the amnesty offer. Found via JD Lasica. -
I'm J.D. LasicaIt's not important that you know who I am, although a two-second trip to Google would have netted you 23,000+ results. But I'd suggest that ideas are more important than bios.
If you're interested in the topic of participatory journalism, you could do worse than reading some of the articles I've written on the subject:
- Personal Broadcasting Opens Yet Another Front for Journalists
- Participatory Journalism Puts the Reader in the Driver's Seat
- What is Participatory Journalism?
- When webloggers commit journalism
- Citizens as budding reporters and editors
And if you haven't heard of the blogosphere, well, that's your loss.
I'm currently working on a book about the clampdown on people's digital rights by the entertainment industries, and hope to post a few chapters on
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I'm J.D. LasicaIt's not important that you know who I am, although a two-second trip to Google would have netted you 23,000+ results. But I'd suggest that ideas are more important than bios.
If you're interested in the topic of participatory journalism, you could do worse than reading some of the articles I've written on the subject:
- Personal Broadcasting Opens Yet Another Front for Journalists
- Participatory Journalism Puts the Reader in the Driver's Seat
- What is Participatory Journalism?
- When webloggers commit journalism
- Citizens as budding reporters and editors
And if you haven't heard of the blogosphere, well, that's your loss.
I'm currently working on a book about the clampdown on people's digital rights by the entertainment industries, and hope to post a few chapters on
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I'm J.D. LasicaIt's not important that you know who I am, although a two-second trip to Google would have netted you 23,000+ results. But I'd suggest that ideas are more important than bios.
If you're interested in the topic of participatory journalism, you could do worse than reading some of the articles I've written on the subject:
- Personal Broadcasting Opens Yet Another Front for Journalists
- Participatory Journalism Puts the Reader in the Driver's Seat
- What is Participatory Journalism?
- When webloggers commit journalism
- Citizens as budding reporters and editors
And if you haven't heard of the blogosphere, well, that's your loss.
I'm currently working on a book about the clampdown on people's digital rights by the entertainment industries, and hope to post a few chapters on
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I'm J.D. LasicaIt's not important that you know who I am, although a two-second trip to Google would have netted you 23,000+ results. But I'd suggest that ideas are more important than bios.
If you're interested in the topic of participatory journalism, you could do worse than reading some of the articles I've written on the subject:
- Personal Broadcasting Opens Yet Another Front for Journalists
- Participatory Journalism Puts the Reader in the Driver's Seat
- What is Participatory Journalism?
- When webloggers commit journalism
- Citizens as budding reporters and editors
And if you haven't heard of the blogosphere, well, that's your loss.
I'm currently working on a book about the clampdown on people's digital rights by the entertainment industries, and hope to post a few chapters on
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I'm J.D. LasicaIt's not important that you know who I am, although a two-second trip to Google would have netted you 23,000+ results. But I'd suggest that ideas are more important than bios.
If you're interested in the topic of participatory journalism, you could do worse than reading some of the articles I've written on the subject:
- Personal Broadcasting Opens Yet Another Front for Journalists
- Participatory Journalism Puts the Reader in the Driver's Seat
- What is Participatory Journalism?
- When webloggers commit journalism
- Citizens as budding reporters and editors
And if you haven't heard of the blogosphere, well, that's your loss.
I'm currently working on a book about the clampdown on people's digital rights by the entertainment industries, and hope to post a few chapters on
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I'm J.D. LasicaIt's not important that you know who I am, although a two-second trip to Google would have netted you 23,000+ results. But I'd suggest that ideas are more important than bios.
If you're interested in the topic of participatory journalism, you could do worse than reading some of the articles I've written on the subject:
- Personal Broadcasting Opens Yet Another Front for Journalists
- Participatory Journalism Puts the Reader in the Driver's Seat
- What is Participatory Journalism?
- When webloggers commit journalism
- Citizens as budding reporters and editors
And if you haven't heard of the blogosphere, well, that's your loss.
I'm currently working on a book about the clampdown on people's digital rights by the entertainment industries, and hope to post a few chapters on
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I'm J.D. LasicaIt's not important that you know who I am, although a two-second trip to Google would have netted you 23,000+ results. But I'd suggest that ideas are more important than bios.
If you're interested in the topic of participatory journalism, you could do worse than reading some of the articles I've written on the subject:
- Personal Broadcasting Opens Yet Another Front for Journalists
- Participatory Journalism Puts the Reader in the Driver's Seat
- What is Participatory Journalism?
- When webloggers commit journalism
- Citizens as budding reporters and editors
And if you haven't heard of the blogosphere, well, that's your loss.
I'm currently working on a book about the clampdown on people's digital rights by the entertainment industries, and hope to post a few chapters on
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Re:Journalism Isn't What You Use To Writereallocate writes:
>As for participatory journalism...well, I expect journalists to make an effort at impartiality; to watch, not participate. A participant's account might be interesting, even informative, but it won't be journalism. Merely producing information is not jouranlism.
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>The primary reason to reject the notion that blog writing is journalism is that fact that blog writers lack editorial oversight, seldom obtain more than a single source to verify a story point (if they manage to obtain even a single source), and infuse their stories with entirely too much information about themselves.
I've been a journalist since 1977 (having worked at various metro dailies), so I probably know a little about newsrooms and journalism. My own view is that news people ought to move away from the idea that journalism is a mysterious craft that's confined only to a select priesthood -- a black art inaccessible to the masses. We forget the derivation of the word journalist: someone who keeps an account of day-to-day events.
In a newsroom, the op-ed columnists, travel writers and home decor writers all consider themselves journalists. Dan Gillmor, tech columnist for the San Jose Mercury News, is still a journalist when he posts directly to his weblog without his posting passing through an editorial filter first -- as he does every day.
Years ago I met Frank McCulloch, a legendary editor at the Sacramento Bee and Los Angeles Times who was Saigon bureau chief for Time magazine during the Vietnam War. An ink-stained member of the old guard, McCulloch believed that journalism was a simple thing. Find the right people. Ask the right questions. Write it up. "This ain't rocket science," he liked to tell people.
Exactly. Citizens are discovering how easy it can be to play reporter and publisher. To practice random acts of journalism, you don't need a big-league publication with a slick Web site behind you. All you need is a computer, an Internet connection, and an ability to perform some of the tricks of the trade: report what you observe, analyze events in a meaningful way, but most of all, just be fair and tell the truth, as you and your sources see it.
Bloggers can do that. Few bloggers fancy themselves journalists, but many acknowledge that their blogs take on some of the trappings of journalism: They take part in the editorial function of selecting newsworthy and interesting topics, they add analysis, insight and commentary, and occasionally they provide a first-person report about an event, a trend, a subject. Over time, bloggers build up a publishing track record, much as any news publication does when it starts out.
Now, is all blogging journalism? Not by a long shot. Nor is it likely that blogging will supplant traditional media or, as some have suggested, that blogging will drive news organizations out of business. When a major news event unfolds, a vast majority of readers will turn to traditional media sources for their news fix. But the story doesn't stop there. On almost any major story, the weblog community adds depth, analysis, alternative perspectives, foreign views, and occasionally first-person accounts that contravene reports in the mainstream press.
We should move beyond the increasingly stale debate of whether blogging is or isn't journalism and celebrate weblogs' place in the media ecosystem. Blogging and traditional journalism complement each other, intersect with each other, play off one another. And sometimes blogs actually do cross the line into real journalism.
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