Citizen journalists versus traditional journalists
Much discussion on Jane Perrone’s commentary of a Vincent Maher article in which he says
Journalists are expected to get up and physically go there, take a photo, do something and get back to post the story … bloggers seem to get away with armchair journalism and its getting worse and worse.
However Jane says
Maher’s right that not a lot of citizen journalism went on yesterday. But there are good reasons why bloggers were “getting away with armchair journalism”.
Neil McIntosh gets in on the act too (and elicits a good response from Vincent Maher himself).
So I’m happy to present this highly informed graph to summarise absolutely everything that can ever be said on the subject. All you need to do is add your own scale.
Discussion closed. I thank you.
Update 1640hrs, 27 July 2005: Corrected the first name of Vincent Maher, and checked his quote, as his blog has come back to life.
