On Jay Rosen's "A Blog Is A Little First Amendment Machine"

I would like to call attention to a piece written by New York University professor Jay Rosen in today's Huffington Post, "A Blog is a Little First Amendment Machine," where he discusses the impact that journalistic blogging has had on the main stream media (MSM), and the potential it has to set a new agenda for newsgathering in the future. Rosen writes that although the U.S. Constitution guarantees a free press, in practical terms that freedom has been ... Full Story »

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by Rory O'Connor - Jun. 8, 2007

I find this piece rather uninformed, frankly. The author says, for example, ""blogging will be delivered by speech and pictures in the future." But this is already happening widely--it's called 'vlogging!'

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by Dale Penn - Jun. 3, 2007
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by Fabrice Florin - Jun. 3, 2007
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by Chris J. Breisch - Jun. 4, 2007

A good little look at a possible future. The ongoing battle between the "old media" and the "new media" promises to be interesting.

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by Kyle Klipowicz - Jun. 4, 2007

Very nice review, it made me want to read the article. Good use of quotes from Neil Postman! I also appreciated the balance by showing how blogs are at risk of supporting the "idiocracy" if they begin to tread the infotainment waters first pioneered by cable news.

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