Changing Minds at Blog Conference

Jay Rosen: Big Wigs From the Blogging & Journalism Conference Say What They Found. Request from a blogger to the people who were at the Harvard conference on journalists, bloggers and trust. "Send me one thing you changed your mind about." Or at least learned. "You have 24 hours," I said. This is what they told me.

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[The Free Press is More Expensive Than You Think.]

Interesting reading. I get this weird feeling in my gut, though, when people talk about blog business models, given the state of the mainstream media (as I perceive it).

It seems the mainstream media crossed a line sometime back. It was one thing to make a paid career out of researching the news or reporting it, and I guess big mdeia has always been powerful in influencing society as its owners like, but what I perceived as prior honor and ethics seem to be gone, or overshadowed by the scandals.

I may have missed your commentary on the White House paid columnists (old news now, I guess) - or perhaps such practices only look very wrong from outside the press?

/Eric