Russ Steele
I was reading the Hot Air Blog about a professor of journalism who thinks that citizen journalism is "too risky," when I got an e-mail from my friend George Rebane, who had just posted on the same subject. You can read Rebane's Ruminations here, but before you do check out Hot Air, it will give you some perspective on how big a threat the professional journalist think bloggers are to their turf.
Professor David Hazinski, a former NBC Correspondent and now Associate Professor in Telecommunications at University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism has this to say about citizen bloggers.
The news industry should find some way to monitor and regulate this new trend.
Brian at Hot Air concludes:
I’m done with this Dr. Hazinski. If he wants to regulate blogs or set up a gate to his dishonest journalism priesthood, I have three words for him: Make our day. For every one instance of a blogger doing wrong, there are probably ten so-called professionals doing something far worse. The difference usually is when a blogger does wrong, he gets found out, shamed, mocked and ostracized. When a journalist does wrong, he just moves to a different network. So bring it on, professor.
OK, now check out Rebane's Ruminations for a local perspective on this issue.
