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	We Media » Chapter 4: The rules of participation
		But collaborative forms of participatory journalism — forums, newsgroups, chat rooms, group weblogs and publishing systems — are more complex because they must balance the tension between the group and the individual.
		The result, he says, is bland news anchors, magazines that more closely resemble catalogs, timid pack journalism, and celebrity/cult-of-personality coverage overload.
		In the next chapter, Implications of We Media, we explore the potential impact of participation journalism on mainstream media and its relationship with advertisers, sources and the audience.
	www.hypergene.net /wemedia/weblog.php?id=P40 (5670 words)

	The New Gatekeepers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Of the elite, she wrote in a post entitled Journalism and the culture of power,“It's like being a fish...
		Bassik's final word for the National Journal was very positive on the whole experience “It just goes to show that we as a community helped to wake up the FEC.” (Apparently cited 20 times, but one of them was in the highly popular Instapundit).
		Much of the blog ethos is framed as contra to journalism; contra to Crawford's field, library science, is the tagging challenge to ontologies (see Clay Shirky's excellent essay on this).
	civilities.net /book/print/189 (13205 words)

	Robert Andrews: Weblog entries from February 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Journalism as craft re: making sense of the world is still a high/civic calling.
		Just back from the Harvard conference on Blogging, Journalism and Credibility, and noticing how the promised revolution didn't quite materialise, Shafer notes the similarity between the rhetoric used then and that used by journoblogger messiahs foretelling the end of journalism as we know it...
		I wrote two days ago on why blogomania, citizen journalism and participatory media are all well and good - but it's how real, professional journalists in Big Media respond that will sort the wheat from the chaff, how new publishing media can augment decent reporting.
	www.robertandrews.co.uk /weblog/2005/02/index.php (5583 words)

	Kenny Smith \| blog \| much like life
		This is pack journalism that has lost control of itself.
		This is a social lynching; in the group there is anonymity and, in this case, assumed protection for those covering the story.
		A hit the perception of journalism can't afford to take right now.
	www.kennysmith.org /blog/2005_03_01_blog_archive.html (4634 words)

	Israel News, January 11, 2002
		All of this -- reportedly between $10 million and $15 million of materiel -- was packed in 83 crates sealed in watertight plastic, ready for offloading in coastal waters.
		The London Press Club said her coverage was a display of "courageous and objective journalism." At another award ceremony, Goldenberg was lauded: "This journalist has been subjected to a campaign of vilification" -- in reference to criticism levied by HonestReporting.
		But they rallied behind the community after Shalhevet was killed; newspaper headlines referred to the killing of an Israeli baby and not a "settler baby." Sontag made the outrageous implication that Jews might normally disregard the ruthless murder of another Jew, simply because they don't share the same political views.
	christianactionforisrael.org /israeln/11jan02.html (5136 words)

	Tim Russert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In American news media, the punditocracy's pack journalism is the standard norm.
		Instead of giving the public real news, USA based "mainstream" corporate-news shills tabloid news that panders to the media "market bias" of the day.
		Weapons of Mass Distraction - Part of the disaster of the new FCC ruling about media ownership is that it puts control of the news in fewer and fewer hands.
	www.anycities.com /andyhifi/news/timrussert.htm (7508 words)

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