This is something that needs to be passed along so that everybody who pays any attention at all to the blogosphere knows about it. Thanks to Jamie Spencer for letting me know.
From Deus Ex Malcontent, the words of any angry, yet aware, former CNN producer/blogger:
As far as CNN (and to be fair, the mainstream TV press in general) believes, it still sits comfortably at the top of the food chain, unthreatened by any possibility of a major paradigm shift being brought to bear by a horde of little people with laptops and opinions. Although the big networks recognize the need to appeal to bloggers, they don’t fear them — and that means they don’t respect them. Corporate-think dictates that the mainstream television press as a monstrous multi-headed hydra is the ultimate news authority and therefore is in possession of the one and only hotline to the ghosts of Murrow and Sevareid. Sure those bloggers are entertaining, but in the end they’re really just insects who either feed off the carcasses of news items vetted through various networks or, when they do break stories, want nothing more than to see themselves granted an audience by the kingmakers on television.
This, of course, is horseshit.
Read the entire piece. It’s well worth your time.
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You’re slowing down in your old age Greenfield. This is last fortnight’s news.
Everyone isn’t as cutting edge as you.
Cutting edge? Hardly. More like blindly hitting the spot once in a while.
Are you kidding? Compared to me, you are the razor.
BTW, I added your “disagreement” link to my videotape post. It’s an important issue, and I hope we get some thoughtful discussion going.
Glad I came in late rather than never on this. A blog written by an ex-CNN journalist who’s survived a brain tumor is one to bookmark — I foresee some good stuff coming at this site. Thanks!
I agree completely. It’s like reruns. If I haven’t seen it before, it’s new to me. And I thought the post was terrific and wanted to spread the word.
Newspapers: 44% Say No Bloggers Allowed
Motivated by the sacking of Chez Pazienza, former news producer at CNN and Deus Ex
Malcontent blogger (discussed here), Simon Owens decided to find out whether newspaper
editors and publishers would be okay with their people blogging.
At Bloggasm, Simon’s research began: