Open Thread: Citizen Vs. Professional Journalists
Can the two get along and does it matter to the information consumer?
On Saturday night, the information age presented the Baltimore area with a highly unusual situation. Local blogger Frank James MacArthur, aka A.F. James MacArthur or Baltimore Spectator, was involved in a standoff with police, who were trying to take him into custody for allegedly violating probation. He has since been taken into custody on gun possession charges stemming from weapons found in the home after the standoff ended. Whereas a decade ago, the information would have predominantly come from television networks and the websites of major news publications. MacArthur used online tools available to tell his side of the story. MacArthur, who considers himself a journalist and activist, updated his Twitter account with play by play as …
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Steve
12:20 pm on Friday, December 7, 2012
Professional journalists tend to stick to the "canons of journalism". Almost all of the blogs I have read the Bloggers have an axe to grind and are only interested in telling one side of the story. more ›