Comments on: Jack Conaty Snubs the Blogosphere http://www.achicagoblog.com/blogging/jack-conaty-snubs-the-blogosphere/ Living and breathing in the Second City Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:59:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Lennie http://www.achicagoblog.com/blogging/jack-conaty-snubs-the-blogosphere/#comment-1565 Lennie Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:48:56 +0000 http://achicagoblog.blogivists.com/2008/03/23/jack-conaty-snubs-the-blogosphere/#comment-1565 Old media also tries to prevent new media from encroaching on its territory instead of embracing it and working together. I have personally had discussions here with 2 local papers in attempts to get them to add a local blogs news section to their publications or to there websites. One outright rejected the idea and then added its own blogs, even though they still do not allow comments on their news-stories. The second paper is still trying to decide what to do. One other paper who covers the area finally added an RSS feed after 9 months from the first time I contacted them about one, Old media also tries to prevent new media from encroaching on its territory instead of embracing it and working together. I have personally had discussions here with 2 local papers in attempts to get them to add a local blogs news section to their publications or to there websites. One outright rejected the idea and then added its own blogs, even though they still do not allow comments on their news-stories. The second paper is still trying to decide what to do.

One other paper who covers the area finally added an RSS feed after 9 months from the first time I contacted them about one,

]]> By: Steve Rhodes http://www.achicagoblog.com/blogging/jack-conaty-snubs-the-blogosphere/#comment-1566 Steve Rhodes Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:38:53 +0000 http://achicagoblog.blogivists.com/2008/03/23/jack-conaty-snubs-the-blogosphere/#comment-1566 Thanks for blogging about my appearance on Fox. If I could just extend my remarks, indeed there are plenty of folks making money on the Web, and I think more will increasingly so. The arrows are pointing up for the Web and down for print. At the same time, I think "old media" is best-positioned to dominate the Web; I do not think it will go away. Up until now, it has been slow on the uptake. And new brands will originate and prosper on the Web, whether its Politico or MinnPost.com or Gawker or Daily Kos or Captain's Quarters. Old Media may dominate, but it will be challenged like never before. Regarding fact-checking, there is no question that old media still has more rigorous reporting, because most of the blogosphere is commentary and analysis. But much of the commentary and analysis picks apart the old media's reporting, the ways they are spun, the biases the show, what they miss. And old media is unwilling to face its own horrible record of accuracy. When I mentioned the run-up to the Iraq War, for which the New York Times and Washington Post issued public apologies, Jack said, "Well, mistakes will always be made." On the greatest issues of our time! But the practitioners in the blogosphere is not necessarily superior; the technology it uses is. It's 3-D communication, instead of 2-D. And that means the Internet is the next great frontier - indeed the best thing that has happened - for actual real reporting. The quality of blogs - like America's newspapers and TV stations - will vary widely. If we can increase the media and civic literacy of our citizens, teach critical thinking, and call for rigorous, honest thought on the Internet, the future indeed is bright. Thanks for letting me extend the conversation. <em>Steve Rhodes's last blog post..<a href='http://www.beachwoodreporter.com/people_places_things/cab_101.php' rel="nofollow">Cab #101</a></em> Thanks for blogging about my appearance on Fox. If I could just extend my remarks, indeed there are plenty of folks making money on the Web, and I think more will increasingly so. The arrows are pointing up for the Web and down for print.

At the same time, I think “old media” is best-positioned to dominate the Web; I do not think it will go away. Up until now, it has been slow on the uptake. And new brands will originate and prosper on the Web, whether its Politico or MinnPost.com or Gawker or Daily Kos or Captain’s Quarters. Old Media may dominate, but it will be challenged like never before.

Regarding fact-checking, there is no question that old media still has more rigorous reporting, because most of the blogosphere is commentary and analysis. But much of the commentary and analysis picks apart the old media’s reporting, the ways they are spun, the biases the show, what they miss. And old media is unwilling to face its own horrible record of accuracy. When I mentioned the run-up to the Iraq War, for which the New York Times and Washington Post issued public apologies, Jack said, “Well, mistakes will always be made.” On the greatest issues of our time!

But the practitioners in the blogosphere is not necessarily superior; the technology it uses is. It’s 3-D communication, instead of 2-D. And that means the Internet is the next great frontier - indeed the best thing that has happened - for actual real reporting. The quality of blogs - like America’s newspapers and TV stations - will vary widely. If we can increase the media and civic literacy of our citizens, teach critical thinking, and call for rigorous, honest thought on the Internet, the future indeed is bright.

Thanks for letting me extend the conversation.

Steve Rhodes’s last blog post..Cab #101

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