Keyboard-to-Keyboard Combat!

 

When I was again reviewing Frank Bajak's, the Associated Press' Tech Editor, recent overview of the blogging and beating down the walls of the media establishment, another nice and key portion drew my attention.
It reads as follows:

The bloggers aren't quite overrunning the newsroom, but they are engaging established media in keyboard-to-keyboard combat that's benefiting public discourse and making the journalism ``franchises'' more accountable.

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Web logs come of age as source of news

 

The San Francisco Chronicle has an article, entitled Web logs come of age as source of news, about how bloggers are breaking the news...

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Not the Container but the Content

 

Frank Bajak, AP Technology Editor, predicts that the sovereignty of Big Journalism is eroding.
Bajak says:

If you don't know what blogging is by now and you're reading this in a newspaper please fold it up and boot up your computer. You're missing a revolution.
Bloggers, derived from the term Web log, include citizen journalists who publish on the Internet. Most aren't worth our time. But plenty of these real-time diarists can't be ignored as they second-guess and otherwise hound professional journalists like no in-house fact-checkers ever would or could.

He adds:

As such, they are beating down the walls of the media establishment.
We in traditional media should have no illusions.
Web publishers and bloggers are already stealing readers, advertisers and classifieds. Particularly for young people, journalism has become, in the words of NYU professor and PressThink.org blogger Jay Rosen, more of a conversation than a lecture.

Bajak insists:

In our business, as my boss, AP chief executive Tom Curley, observed recently, what matters now is not the container but the content. That may sound self-serving from a news wholesaler, but I can tell you that most of the information I process, books and magazines excepted, is in electronic form and delivered to my e-mail inbox via RSS feed.

I suppose It is worthy of reading by all communication men and women, so continue here.

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