I will admit upfront that I am not a journalist, and haven't read the Huffington Post before (except perhaps when it was linked to from a previous story). With that said though, I think that there is merit to this. A year and a half ago during the presidential primaries there was (and still is to a lesser extent) a huge outrage directed towards the mainstream media for their blatant bias and not reporting on much of the news out there.
I think that there is a shift going on, and grassroots journalism is where it is headed. People aren't going to get the information that they are looking for from traditional media sources, it is going to have to come from each other. This started with blogging, and I think as more and more people get frustrated with the media, new forms of news are going to come about.
I personally was so frustrated with the mainstream media that I developed (and am still in the process of doing so) a grassroots news site called WEport where anyone can post news and events taking place in their communities.
It's like Red Flayer commented, "There are lots of good journalists in the US... they just don't get TV time." As long as people keep relying on the media, government, or whoever, they are going to keep getting screwed. It's these good journalists that aren't heard which need an outlet (and why WEport was created).
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I will admit upfront that I am not a journalist, and haven't read the Huffington Post before (except perhaps when it was linked to from a previous story). With that said though, I think that there is merit to this. A year and a half ago during the presidential primaries there was (and still is to a lesser extent) a huge outrage directed towards the mainstream media for their blatant bias and not reporting on much of the news out there.
I think that there is a shift going on, and grassroots journalism is where it is headed. People aren't going to get the information that they are looking for from traditional media sources, it is going to have to come from each other. This started with blogging, and I think as more and more people get frustrated with the media, new forms of news are going to come about.
I personally was so frustrated with the mainstream media that I developed (and am still in the process of doing so) a grassroots news site called WEport where anyone can post news and events taking place in their communities.
It's like Red Flayer commented, "There are lots of good journalists in the US... they just don't get TV time." As long as people keep relying on the media, government, or whoever, they are going to keep getting screwed. It's these good journalists that aren't heard which need an outlet (and why WEport was created).