Jeff Jarvis live blogged his Harvard workshop entitled Blogging, Journalism & Credibility. Pretty good observations from a wide variety of participants from both big media and the blogosphere. An exerpt I liked;
: Jay Rosen is presenting his paper. He said the "war should be over between bloggers and journalists, the cartoon dialogue... Even though it makes for good feature stories and great blog posts, bloggers vs. journalists doesn't help us much." He said the tension between them will go on and its necessary and inevitable. But the tsunami story makes it "obvious that blogs have a role in journalism."Dave Winer said this morning that I was Jay's Frankenstein. Jay said it's the opposite. Jay's right. He has made me think about media (read: my life) in new ways.
After summarizing his paper, he quotes Rebecca Blood saying that part of the reason for conflict is that blogging and journalism are in a "shared media space." That is the reason the war is over because no one is leaving that space.
Jay is making a point he made on Brian Lehrer's show a few weeks ago: that this not about the "media" but about the "press" and the press is now owned by the people. That is the real shift of power. "They have to share the press with the public."
Isn't that precisely the problem with CBS? Dan et al could not bear to share the press with the public. But the public demanded it. The public won that battle.
The rest is here
via OTB.
Related, Reynolds quotes Lileks:
"I'd say it's a throwback to the old newspapers, the days when partisan slants covered everything from the play story to the radio listings, but this is different. The link changes everything. When someone derides or exalts a piece, the link lets you examine the thing itself without interference. TV can't do that. Radio can't do that. Newspapers and magazines don't have the space. My time on the internet resembles eight hours at a coffeeshop stocked with every periodical in the world - if someone says "I read something stupid" or "there was this wonderful piece in the Atlantic" then conversation stops while you read the piece and make up your own mind.
