June 1st blog panel
On June 1 at Club Quarters in New York City, the Overseas Press Club will host a distinguished group of mainstream journalists and bloggers to wrestle with a question that can no longer be postponed: Are weblogs hurting or helping the American public remain informed about international news?
That and other questions will be mulled by a panel moderated by Columbia University School of Journalism's New Media Director Sree Sreenivasan. Panelists include Joe Trippi, blogger, MSNBC analyst and former campaign manager of the Howard Dean for President campaign; Paul Mirengoff, one of the men behind Powerline, the blog that brought CBS News failings on the Bush National Guard story to light; Rebecca MacKinnon, a former CNN correspondent based in China and Japan and now a blogger at RConversation, Marshall Loeb, columist for CBS MarketWatch, and Michael Moran, a former BBC and Associated Press correspondent now working as senior correspondent for MSNBC.com.
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1 comments about 'June 1st blog panel'"From eyewitness accounts to pleas for aid to home video recordings, the 'blogosphere' out collected and outflanked traditional news organizations in many ways, deployed what amounted to an army of volunteer journalists who delivered, free of charge, compelling, front line information about what was going on in South and Southeast Asia."
I'd just like to challenge the view that the blogs had an edge. There was a lot of raw data to anyone who could look for it, and it certainly helped matters that this story broke when a lot of people in the U.S. were off-work. The raw accounts and videos were of course compelling to journalists and other news junkies. But months after the tragedy, the New York Times was still covering the aftermath of the Tsunami, while U.s. bloggers had all but moved on.
See this discussion on WorldChanging about whether the blog triumphalism was warranted here:
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/001834.html
Also regarding international news coverage of blogs vs. traditional media Ethan Zuckerman's research shows that the aggregate coverage of both looks largely the same:
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/05/19/visualizing_news_bias.html
http://h2odev.law.harvard.edu/ezuckerman/
Posted by Jon Garfunkel at May 31, 2005 6:47 PM
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