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Re: journalism and cluetrain
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Paul Swider
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Feb 11, 2004 16:13 PST
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Seems to me that they're a whole lot less relevant than they used to be,
though there are still a lot of people who find it easier to just pick up a
paper or turn on the tv than to fire up a computer and search the info out.
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If half the country takes Fox at its word that 9-11 was related to Iraq,
traditional media clearly still have an influence. But I don't think
that means we can only create new structures because if we do, that half
the country remains uninformed for a long, long time.
| | | | I don't want to fight newspapers or other media, I want to help them find the
clue.
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What do you see as their role, then, in a newer context as compared to what
it's traditionally been?
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Participants in the conversation, instead of lecturers. It's easy to
say, "It'll never happen," but that doesn't make it so. What's wrong
with this:
I'm a reporter working on a story. Instead of writing around the
information I lack, I write right into it and ask the question. "The
mayor says x and his opponents say y but we don't yet have the source
document or the recall to tell which one is telling us the truth. If
anyone out there does, please share it with our discussion." The
reporter continues to be a reporter but without the charade of knowing
everything, instead involving others in the research and reporting.
Following the story becomes like an unraveling mystery, instead of the
faux fait accompli. Make for some compelling reading, methinks.
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Paul Swider
Cell 727.776.9979
eFax 208.248.1869
swider.net <http://www.swider.net/>
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<pre wrap="">And how do we correct the impasse they create?
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Seems to me that they're a whole lot less relevant than they used to be,
though there are still a lot of people who find it easier to just pick up a
paper or turn on the tv than to fire up a computer and search the info out.</pre>
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If half the country takes Fox at its word that 9-11 was related to Iraq,
traditional media clearly still have an influence. But I don't think that
means we can only create new structures because if we do, that half the country
remains uninformed for a long, long time.<br>
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cite="mid12981914-14637-@boing.topica.com">
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<pre wrap="">I don't want to fight newspapers or other media, I want to help them find the
clue.
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What do you see as their role, then, in a newer context as compared to what
it's traditionally been?</pre>
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Participants in the conversation, instead of lecturers. It's easy to say,
"It'll never happen," but that doesn't make it so. What's wrong with this:<br>
I'm a reporter working on a story. Instead of writing around the information
I lack, I write right into it and ask the question. "The mayor says x and
his opponents say y but we don't yet have the source document or the recall
to tell which one is telling us the truth. If anyone out there does, please
share it with our discussion." The reporter continues to be a reporter but
without the charade of knowing everything, instead involving others in the
research and reporting. Following the story becomes like an unraveling mystery,
instead of the faux fait accompli. Make for some compelling reading, methinks.<br>
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Cell 727.776.9979<br>
eFax 208.248.1869<br>
<a href="http://www.swider.net/">swider.net</a></font></p>
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