A video on how citizen journalism is taking over the web and replacing mainstream news media.
How have blogs affected main-stream media? Is there a way to tell the two apart?
A video on how citizen journalism is taking over the web and replacing mainstream news media.
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In 2005-2006 the discussion around blogs was its potential threat to ‘kill’ mainstream media, newspapers, and magazines. As a result, mainstream media responded back, sometimes with negative attacks like ‘attack of the blogs’. Segregation was impossible and eventually groups within mainstream media outlets started to create blogs on their own, often covering the technology sector or political arena, and many were used as a ‘personal column’ or a place to get more millage out of stories that were cut from editorial.
Taking a closer look at the bloggers themselves, while there is certainly a longer tail of content (specific and niche blogs that will barely get a mention in niche magazines) yet the top blogs (A-listers) resemble the same editorial structure as mainstream medium or an editorial columnist. For example, some of the top tech blogs have a team of journalists/bloggers who cover different areas, there’s often a senior editor who reviews, shapes, or verbally lets the authors know the direction of the site.
So what’s the difference between today’s mainstream press and a-list blogger ‘teams’? Is it quality? Not always. Is it timeliness? It varies. Is it the ability to leave comments? both styles have comments available. Is it personality? It depends.
Perhaps the primary difference is the difference in niche (long tail) content written from first hand sources, and secondly, who will respond and leave comments on this post, I’ll be it’ll be primarily bloggers, not mainstream media folks.
I prescribe to the belief that this evolution is natural, a new medium has been born, and with it comes a shift in power, where it will go we will all see.
I think blogs have added on to what mainstream media is. You name it and there's probably a blog about it. TV shows, movies, radio stations, and newspapers have blogs. I think blogs have, in a way, become a part of what we know as mainstream media.
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