Por causa deste "Um blogue não é jornalismo!", deste Separar as águas, que remete para estas "Ligações Perigosas" - que não é sobre bloggers mas sobre jornalistas-bloggers, o que é uma outra grande conversa... - veja-se o trabalho jornalístico deste blogue: CNN's Nuke Plant Photos Identical for Both Iran and N. Korea! Two stories posted in the last week on the CNN website, one on nukes in Iran last Wednesday, and another on nukes in North Korea on Saturday, both use the same aerial photograph of the same purported nuclear power plant!
But one is supposed to be in Iran and the other is supposed to be in North Korea!
Não é jornalismo num blogue?
E ainda estas reflexões à conta da demissão de um jornalista por causa de bloggers que afinal souberam da história por um... jornalista:
The Jordan Kerfuffle: So it was only normal for our Bret Stephens to report a January 27 panel discussion he attended at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, during which CNN's Eason Jordan appeared to say -- before he tried to unsay it -- that U.S. troops had deliberately targeted journalists in Iraq. [...]
No doubt this point of view will get us described as part of the "mainstream media." But we'll take that as a compliment since we've long believed that these columns do in fact represent the American mainstream. We hope readers buy our newspaper because we make grown-up decisions about what is newsworthy, and what isn't.
Rebecca Blood: I don't know what Eason Jordan said at Davos--no one does, who wasn't in that room. [...]
Those writing about Eason Jordan have missed the most important angle. It is a collision of expectations that is at the root of the whole incident. The Davos conference, as I understand it, is explicitly understood to be off the record--a place where movers and shakers (and select journalists) can get together and speak openly to each other without worrying about representing their professions, their employers, or their constituencies. The conference is designed to elicit the uncensored remark: for open conversation and debate without fear of public repercussion.
Non-Blogger Fired For Blogging! Net effect? Lots of negatives, few positives.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but you're hurting us. You're hurting all weblogs.
We're just barely into the phase where normal people have heard the word "blog", and the zealous political bloggers who form a loud, obnoxious minority of bloggers have decided they want their grandmothers to think of blogging as "that thing that gets journalists fired". That sucks, and it's going to limit the number of people who join into our medium. And the zealous tech bloggers who form a loud, obnoxious minority of bloggers have decided they want their grandmothers to think that blogging is "that thing that gets regular people fired". That's not better.
