'All news will be posted blog-style'
"Eventually almost all news will be posted blog-style," predicts Tom Mangan, a features desk copy editor at the San Jose Mercury News and a blogger.
"Blogging is a natural way to report the news," he tells Leonard Witt. "...When the big fires hit San Diego last year, bloggers started posting news updates, comments, personal perspectives, links to other stories. It's an organic reaction to breaking news. It's an indictment of our industry that we've been so slow to catch on to something so painfully obvious. Painful because amateurs are in some cases doing a better job than we are. This is the blogosphere's case: we can do this without all you news people. They can, but they will never have the resources, time or professional commitment to stick it out over the long haul. We have the commitment, the resources, the money, all we lack is the realization that this is how news should be reported online....
"If we have a blog up and running within minutes of a big story breaking, we cut Google and the bloggers out of the equation. If we make it interactive, we make our site the go-to location for breaking news."
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3 comments about ''All news will be posted blog-style''I noticed that many stories hit the blogs before they newspaper.
Posted by Latino Pundit at February 24, 2004 7:52 AM
your are right. in a way coventional journalism is threatened by the interactivity of the new media. the common man not only can write through blogging all that is happening around him before a reporter reaches the spot, he can also have freer access to much information by the net which earlier was left to the reporter to fish out from official files.
one way it is good - the media becomes more agile and finds newer ways, critical analytic for example to keep its readers/viwers happy and also bad - the lazy media will wind up and the reporters lose their jobs.
Posted by buroshiva dasgupta at March 4, 2004 8:52 PM
sorry i don't have a generic drug name to append to my comments and i no longer drink so you will just have to put up with my genuine media comments!
i agree that all news will go blog. here at www.pacificaids.org/blog i am still getting to grips with the beast but it provides an easy way for even an isolated ngo like us to get a vast range of news out very quickly.
as numbers of blogs grow, blogs will then be collated by regular news sites.
jason brown
information assistant
pacific islands aids foundation
Posted by jason brown at December 3, 2004 8:26 PM
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