Slides for today's "Bloggers vs. Journalists: It's a Psychological Thing" at SXSW. Jay Rosen will be speaking, I'll be managing the backchannel.
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Location:
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Capitol A&D
Saturday 3/12, 3:30 PM
SXSW 2011
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Bloggers vs Journalists: It's a Psychological Thing
1. Bloggers vs. Journalists:
It’s a Psychological Thing
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Jay Rosen (jayrosen_nyu)
with assistance from
Lisa Williams, Placeblogger.com (@lisawilliams)
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3. “I did not want to
preserve, I wanted to to preserve, I wanted to
“I did not want
facts.”
destroy the facts.” destroy the facts…”
Lincoln Steffens
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6. “A lot of bloggers seem to be socially
inadequate, pimpled, single, slightly seedy,
bald, cauliflower-nosed young men sitting in
their basements and ranting.”
Andrew Marr,
former political editor, BBC
host, Andrew Marr Show
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7. “Citizen journalism is the spewings and
rantings of very drunk people late at night.”
Andrew Marr
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9. “I think I have an unnatural obsession
with and hatred of the editor of the
(Columbus) Dispatch.”
“teet,” a blogger
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10. “Bloggers, on the other hand, represent
nothing. They whinge, carp, and whine about
our role in society, yet they contribute
nothing to it, other than satisfying their
juvenile egos.”
Editor’s column, Townsville Bulletin
Queensland, Australia
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12. “Note to Ben Marrison: if you want to
pretend that you are somehow better than
bloggers because you are less biased and less
lazy, you might consider actually NOT being
both lazy and biased.
Don’t you know that’s our job?
Joseph Mismas,
plunderbund.com
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13. “No amount of random blogging and gotcha
videos can replace the journalism that keeps
a government accountable to its people.”
Connie Schulz,
Cleveland Plain Dealer
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14. "Chicago Tribune reporters work in difficult
and sometimes dangerous conditions. They
do not blog from mommy's basement, cutting
and pasting what others have reported, while
putting it under a cute pen name on the
Internet.”
John Kass,
Chicago Tribune
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15. What do they have against basements, anyway?
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16. grumbling about bloggers these days is
tantamount to yelling at the neighborhood
kids to get off your lawn. It makes you look
really, really old Julie Di Caro, Chicago Now
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17. What would be nice to
have in there (and I'm
not sure if anyone
state it openly) is if a
journalist said, YES! I
would love to write
with reckless
abandon the way the
bloggers do. I'd like to
print it out and post it
on my refrigerator."
Anna Tarkov Twitter hashtag: #bvg
18. “Really good print journalism is ego-free.”
Marc Ambinder,
National Journal
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19. I don't buy into the widespread delusion that
legions of bloggers, compulsive twitterers or
facebookers amount to a replacement for
journalism.
Frédéric Filloux,
Liberation, Paris
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21. The sad truth is that the Washington Post, in
its general desperation for page views, now
hires people who came up in journalism
without much adult supervision, and without
the proper amount of toilet-training."
Anonymous comment,
Washingtonpost.com
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22. "Bloggers will write that their mother loves
them. Journalists will check it out."
Steve Woodward,
Nozzl.com
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24. "Bloggers include political hacks, conspiracy theorists, and
40 year old guys with an obsession about Jar-Jar Binks."
- Bob Bird, Boone Examiner
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Istolethetv
25. It's one Internet, one news system. Bloggers
aren't “outside” it.
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27. “Journalism v. blogging is a nonissue -- the
issue is owned vs. free.”
Greg Bean
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28. When you claim press corruption: “You just
slapped ever every journalist who has
uncovered corruption, died on a battlefield,
or attended a city council meeting on YOUR
behalf in the face.”
"Functional Pages," commenting on
Pressthink.org
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29. “Doesn't the distinction between bloggers
and journalists boil down to resources?”
Maureen Ogle
author, Ambitious Brew
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30. What makes it journalism? Copy editors.
H/T David Cole,
newsinc.net
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31. “A blog is the unedited voice of a person.”
Dave Winer
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32. “A blog is the unedited voice of a person.”
- Dave Winer
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33. “There seems to be no end to argument in
your world.”
Bill Keller
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34. Long ago (the 20s and 30's) they were forced
to give up their voice in return for steady
employment, institutional power, social
position, and workplace peace.
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35. “Objectivity as ideology was a kind of
industrial discipline.”
Michael Schudson
“Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press”
H/T Megan Garber, NiemanLab
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