Mainstream media must change their ways
At least someone in academia is on the right track this week. In a piece in the Seattle Times, Professor David Domke of the University of Washington and Professor Elizabeth Blanks Hindman of Washington State University, warn of the dangers facing journalism today unless change is made.
“Online news provides opportunities for that mix of insider and outsider, for journalist-created and citizen-created perspectives on democracy. The top-down, voice-on-high model of knowledge is dead, in journalism as well as in higher education; that’s a good thing.”
As mainstream media continues to evolve, it is clear that citizen journalism will play a role. This does not mean, as Helen Thomas would contend, that anyone with a laptop = journalist. But it does mean that anyone with a laptop, an idea, an image, a video, or even a thought can contribute to the conversation and help to shape how we react to and interpret news. And that’s how news is changing.
The article also says, “The press must expand beyond old ways of defining news, to find new pathways in the 21st century, routes that include many voices and new ways of interacting with the public.”
We fully agree. When iConflict.com is up and running in February, it is our hope that these new voices will find a vehicle for communication.
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Blogflict, like other blogs, wrote a lot this week on the David Hazinski demonstration that it doesn’t take much to be a journalism professor these days. I thought this article was much more practical and the authors far more sensible. The fact is, news is changing.
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