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This is not your father's morning paper
Newspapers are vintage, and vintage is cool. But as with record players, rotary dial telephones and typewriters, have newspapers become something that people use merely for the novelty of feeling as if they are living in the past? Print media is commonly referred to as ‘old media’ these days, but does that mean print journalism will eventually to ( Read more... ) -
Look upon my works, ye mighty, and comment!
So far I have illustrated a few cases where blogs have reached major news stories, where bloggers have been successful in bringing down major news outlets, politicians and journalists. It’s not hard to see that blogs are often making big news now, but can it work the other way? Can we rely on a blog to bring us the news the way we rely on ( Read more... ) -
Bitten by the blogosphere
Dan Rathers’ was not the first scalp claimed by bloggers in their war on the mainstream media’s misrepresentation of the truth. In 2002, just under two years prior to the Rathergate incident, Republican Trent Lott was the first to be bitten by the blogosphere when bloggers took notice of comments that he made at a birthday celebration for former ( Read more... ) -
Who watches the watchdog?
To assess the rise of online journalism, we should start with a story that involves bloggers giving the journalists of the ‘old media’ a lesson in how to be a good watchdog. A story presented by Dan Rather, reporter for America’s 60 Minutes in 2004, featured some typewritten documents from 1973 that allegedly brought then-president George W. Bush’s ( Read more... ) -
Chinese e-democracy
The Australian Government has plans to introduce an internet filtering system, that will prevent access to material such as pornography (the legal and illegal kinds) and websites discussing abortion and anorexia, as well as making internet connections slower and more costly in a country with already dismal broadband speed and availability. The ( Read more... )