Jay Rosen says it's time for people who hold panels on tomorrow's journalism to stop featuring the usual suspects and bring in new blood -- namely the people who are out there in the trenches doing what the rest of us are just talking about.
He's right, though he unaccountably doesn't include me in the list of usual suspects. I don't know whether to be flattered or horrified...
Dan: You're too valuable to take off the circuit. Mystery solved.
Thanks for the pointer.
Posted by: Jay Rosen | April 12, 2005 at 07:43 PM
"Necessity is the mother of invention"
Citizen Journalist exists for two reason:
1) Cheap printing presses (blogs) allow people to fill a void that has always existed in sharing very focused information. Analogous, in my beliefs, to pamphleteers and Thomas Paine (as a side note, Paine wrote "Common Sense" anonymously - a required 'option' for the success of citizen journalism - in my opinion).
2) Less so today, but increasing every day, the void created (or left) by dailies and weeklies.
While many of us analyze and discuss who and what journalists are . . . watch them just appear.
bob
Posted by: Robert Leonard | April 13, 2005 at 06:39 AM
Who winnows your chaff?
Some of my 'usual suspects' include Indymedia, Antiwar.com, J Orlinn Grabbe, Infoshop.org
Gene Ross and Dan the Man, Oh and Cryptome of course. The classics.
Posted by: professor-rat | April 13, 2005 at 08:42 AM