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  • 06 Feb 09
    yeo_man
    Nathan Yeo

    nope

    media blogging new

    • "People who say blogs are 'parasitic' are referring, really, to only a subset of blogs -- those that refer to, and comment on, matters of public interest that are typically covered by mainstream media," Rich Gordon, Associate Professor and Director of Digital Technology in Education at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, responded.

      "There are many, many blogs that address topics that aren't covered by mainstream media at all. Those who write these blogs do original reporting, at least based on what they see around them. So even to the degree this criticism has a basis in fact, it refers only to a fraction of all blogs."

    • I find some of these parasitic-ish blogs particularly useful - because they spotlight things I might miss," wrote Columbia Graduate School of Journalism Professor Sree Sreenivasan. "A great example is Romenesko. It's my first visit every day. Lots of old-school journos, who don't like blogs, read it religiously, without knowing it's a blog!"
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  • 14 Apr 07
    sgeula
    sgeula

    blogs del.icio.us imported journalism media new_media

  • 12 Apr 07
    noreason
    noreason

    blogs internet journalism media online

  • 07 Mar 07
    andymatic
    andymatic

    "Could the blogosphere survive without the reporting provided by newspapers and TV networks? Online pros tackle the question."

    Journalism Blogs blogging media newspapers Internet Online

  • 04 Mar 07
    herbelizer
    Fabian Herbel

    Could the blogosphere survive without the reporting provided by newspapers and TV networks? Online pros tackle the question.

  • spiralfunk
    Spiral Funk

    article blogging critic

  • 03 Mar 07
    sapollock
    Stewart Pollock

    Journalism

    • Over the past months, I've heard several journalists make the same comment at various industry forums: That blogs are a "parasitic" medium that wouldn't be able to exist without the reporting done at newspapers.

      I hear the frustration behind the comment. You bust your rear to get stories in the paper, then watch bloggers grab traffic talking about your work. All the while your bosses are laying off other reporters, citing circulation declines, as analysts talk about newspapers losing audience to the Web. It's not hard to understand why many newspaper journalists would come to view blogs as parasites, sucking the life from their newsrooms.
    • Over the past months, I've heard several journalists make the same comment at various industry forums: That blogs are a "parasitic" medium that wouldn't be able to exist without the reporting done at newspapers.

      I hear the frustration behind the comment. You bust your rear to get stories in the paper, then watch bloggers grab traffic talking about your work. All the while your bosses are laying off other reporters, citing circulation declines, as analysts talk about newspapers losing audience to the Web. It's not hard to understand why many newspaper journalists would come to view blogs as parasites, sucking the life from their newsrooms.
  • 02 Mar 07
    malburns
    Mal Burns
  • marcel
    Marcel Weiss

    blogs journalism

    • "Baloney," she wrote in response to my question. "An opinion editorialist doesn't have to break news herself to provide amazing, fresh perspective on world events -- whether she's published on the New York Times Op-Ed page or on her own blog. Sounds like these folks are less interested in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and the public discourse upon which American democracy is based than they are with Machiavellian divine right."

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