Paul’s Life One Post At A Time.

For every horror story about how awful and un-accountable this new world is going to be, moreover, there are dozens of examples of uncovered sleaze, unfairness, and hypocrisy that never would have been reported in the old mainstream media world.

• Would we really have gotten a better sense of the Iran protests from a single NYT bureau instead of thousands of Twitter and Facebook images?

• Would CBS's fake National Guard documents have been outed so rapidly?

• Were we really better off when we had to wait for PR people at companies to package layoffs or problems instead of reporting employee and customer chatter as it occurs?

• Is it really better to have a handful of reporters and editors tell us what they think is important instead of letting anyone who wants to weigh in weigh in?  (Can anyone seriously believe this?  Thousands of expert readers constitute a much better fact-checking department than the best news organization in the world) 

I have to agree with Blodgett. The web in many ways has really been a net positive so far for journalism. My feeling those who whine about the effect of the web are the ones whose position of power is under attack. They no longer get to decide what is important and their voices are no longer the only voices.