Mads Kristensen
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05:05:09 pm on January 29, 2008 | # |
If you had to pick, which one is the most important? To educate journalists into new technologies or to redefine medias position in society?
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Esben Thomsen 17:23 on January 29, 2008 | #
Get rid of the media.. we don’t need’em anymore. Couldn’t care less about the media, if it wasn’t because they think they are democracy watchdogs.
They are doing poor job at that
Mads Kristensen 17:26 on January 29, 2008 | #
But how would you get your news, if you cut out this element of the food chain? Do you think you’ll still have the same news flow? Personally, I am not sure and to me that is a valid reason to have some sort of media. The key here is the ’some sort’, as I’m pretty sure it’s a business that really and truly needs to reinvent itself.
Esben Thomsen 17:37 on January 29, 2008 | #
Well I for one don’t have a TV or radio and I only read newspaper when Im bored..
The reason is that news redaction is a closed source, so I can’t know why the take those decisions as they do.
Mads Kristensen 17:52 on January 29, 2008 | #
Which is excactly why the media have an urgent need to reinvent themselves, become transparent and usefull and start adapting to the reality they are actually a part of. Because it’s still people - not media - who define reality.
Esben Thomsen 18:02 on January 29, 2008 | #
We agree on that issue and the worst part is that it isn’t so difficult to do so. I think they somehow loose power if they do.
But I don’t like them to reinvent themself and I don’t believe pushing journalist into becoming bloggers, is the solution. It only distort the image of bloggers and making things even less transparent.
The solution is not to “reinvent” themselfs, but to get rid of them. It can easily be done and actually I have tried getting someone to endorse such a project. Today everyone can be a journalist and instead of centralizing the news source, it should be decentralized.
Mads Kristensen 18:16 on January 29, 2008 | #
I don’t think journalists should be bloggers. That’s not what I’m suggesting. What I’m suggesting is whether there is an alternative way that media - perhaps in a more democratic shape and form - could fit better into modern society and actually serve peoples real needs for news and information? It would be a complete gamechanger.