Maybe the topic was a little too big to be dealt with in a little over an hour and might have benefited from more of a structured agenda.
Not many answered were given and it became a attack on the BBC and bloggers.
You will be pleased though to know that Joanna Geary stood up for the blogger and has quickly put together this post on her immediate thoughts
This is something I’ll put more thought into tomorrow, but I needed to post this in order to sleep!
It was prompted by a panel discussion at the Journalism Leaders Forum today where, once again, the “blogs are rubbish and can’t be trusted” mantra was trotted out by some of the panel members.
Why? Why are we still even having this debate.
Why is it that when you talk about blogs to some journalists, the images that pop into their heads are of the celebrity-obsessed, the political rumour-mongers or the batshit insane?
Why don’t they think about the first hand accounts of conflict, the well-respected tech news sites, the local community information or those producing focused industry analysis?
Well said Joanna
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