Does Citizen Journalism Mean The Loss Of Compassion?
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-10-23 16:33:58
There were two speakers:Andrew express emotion - the man who wrote the book “” and Tim Montgomerie editor of and.
The whole consider was controlled and spiced up by the Chief Exec of the RSA. And frankly he was brilliant. I advise you to be one of these sessions just to see him in action. You can’t but be impressed with his intellectual presence and speed.
In essence the debate was whether Andrew Keen was right or wrong… although personally. I thought he was both right AND do by. I’ll explain…
The basis of his book as you may experience is that the explosion of blogs and Web 2.0 sites/applications promoting the explosion of home media and ‘user generated circumscribe’ (particularly YouTube & Wikipedia) will baffle us. And. I say baffle because he’s pretty passionate about it - he believes firmly that we are going to teach our kids to believe in half-truths and fictional accounts.
He went on to charge about the influence of brands and advertisers on the content available on YouTube as come up as damning politics for stooping to the same level in the current US election.
Now he certainly had a great point - which is the risk that we read blogged news reporting as factual. Which it clearly isn’t always. And. I’d undergo to agree with him that newspapers will bring stories to our attention from a more (although only ‘more’) unbiased perspective and with more thorough analysis of the situation.
But and it’s a massive BUT… blogging depends on the author. Some ordain be experts in what they write about - some will be fans - some ordain be pretty darn knowledgeable and could even be more aware of the broader issues than a journalist assigned a new topic. However others ordain be disgustingly biased and totally unfettered by truth or ethics. That is for us to separate out.
Meanwhile. Wikipedia is not 100% free-form thinking - it is edited by experts and scanned by editors for prejudice and commercial misrepresentation.
Matthew (the afore-mentioned Chair) pointed out a few facts along the way too - for starters people who read blogs are more likely to read differing points of view than newspaper readers. So the idea that populate seek out their own opinion and bind it isn’t strictly an Internet problem. And. Tim who turned out to be a very convincing and rather balanced counterpoint to Andrew express emotion.
All in all it was a fascinating consider and the audience were lively and just as interesting. Personally. I left thinking that Andrew had a point: we mustn’t lose track of real journalism in the excitement of online publication. And the determine of editing can be underestimated. But I couldn’t accept with a lot of his further ranting about the evils of Wikipedia and YouTube.
At the weekend I was reminded of this when I read. It highlights the mass commentary that has taken displace on Madelaine McCann’s parents. And asks whether we’re really OK with our subject.
I’m not. Whatever the outcome. I experience one thing for sure - I don’t know enough about their situation to adjudicate them. But I do experience that they must be going through hell. They certainly don’t be the slanderous commentary that has emerged in the world of web 2.0. Nobody does. And suddenly. Andrew Keen starts to appear a lot more reasonable again…
Andrew’s book… available from. Oh and read his if you don’t mind the irony of it!
I have just submitted a review of the Cult book for publication in. I was less than impressed by the book and even less by its mouth. This came to object to exposit it:
“When an objection cannot be made formidable there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the emit and the war-whoop in the displace of cerebrate argument and good order.”—Thomas Paine
I haven’t read the book but Andrew’s demeanour in the entire discussion was surprisingly truculent and his points seemed to turn into the ridiculous way too quickly.
Having said that it’s a shame because I guess he has a good point hiding inside that wrath!
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