Comments on: What Forgerygate Has Taught Me http://www.israellycool.com/2004/09/13/what-forgerygate-has-taught-me/ Down Under Punditry in the Middle East Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:43:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Anonymous http://www.israellycool.com/2004/09/13/what-forgerygate-has-taught-me/#comment-2098 Anonymous Mon, 13 Sep 2004 18:08:00 +0000 http://www.israellycool.com/2004/09/13/what-forgerygate-has-taught-me/#comment-2098 I think you're way too nice. The possibility that I would subscribe to is that in this day and age, the need for a generic specialization in "journalism" has largely evaporated, and that a domain expert can communicate a lot better about his domain than a journalist can communicate about any domain. The Internet and then the blogosphere have made it progressively easier to aggregate the opinions of various domain experts, thereby bypassing the journalists' role as content filters. The upshot is that some guy in his pajamas with a broadband feed is just as good as a journalist, and can be better in certain situations because he can move faster, unhindered by committees and editors. As Wretchard posted, we relied on the fact that legacy media had enough investment in their own reputation for correctness that they would defend it. It actually turns out that the guy in his pajamas cares a lot more than CBS does. Recap: I think we need option 4 - bloggers are ordinary people who are better at analysing and communicating facts than journalists. This tells us something about the state of journalism in this day and age more than it tells us anything about the quality of blogging, but it's still an interesting way of looking at this. I think you’re way too nice. The possibility that I would subscribe to is that in this day and age, the need for a generic specialization in “journalism” has largely evaporated, and that a domain expert can communicate a lot better about his domain than a journalist can communicate about any domain. The Internet and then the blogosphere have made it progressively easier to aggregate the opinions of various domain experts, thereby bypassing the journalists’ role as content filters. The upshot is that some guy in his pajamas with a broadband feed is just as good as a journalist, and can be better in certain situations because he can move faster, unhindered by committees and editors.

As Wretchard posted, we relied on the fact that legacy media had enough investment in their own reputation for correctness that they would defend it. It actually turns out that the guy in his pajamas cares a lot more than CBS does.

Recap: I think we need option 4 - bloggers are ordinary people who are better at analysing and communicating facts than journalists. This tells us something about the state of journalism in this day and age more than it tells us anything about the quality of blogging, but it’s still an interesting way of looking at this.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.israellycool.com/2004/09/13/what-forgerygate-has-taught-me/#comment-2097 Anonymous Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:43:00 +0000 http://www.israellycool.com/2004/09/13/what-forgerygate-has-taught-me/#comment-2097 ---------------- I suspect that the answer is 1. ---------------- I think you are right, although I'm sure it is a mixture to some degree. As for Dan Rather and the Pajama comment......I put Rather in the pajamas that Glenn Rynolds linked to. http://spitballdefense.blogs.com/spitblog/2004/09/blogfather.html —————-

I suspect that the answer is 1.

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I think you are right, although I’m sure it is a mixture to some degree. As for Dan Rather and the Pajama comment……I put Rather in the pajamas that Glenn Rynolds linked to.

http://spitballdefense.blogs.com/spitblog/2004/09/blogfather.html

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