Comments on: Information is only scarce if you live in a bubble http://strange.corante.com/2008/06/12/information-is-only-scarce-if-you-live-in-a-bubble Picking out patterns in the chaos Mon, 21 May 2012 14:11:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Kevin Anderson http://strange.corante.com/2008/06/12/information-is-only-scarce-if-you-live-in-a-bubble#comment-2882 Kevin Anderson Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:10:26 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/2008/06/12/information-is-only-scarce-if-you-live-in-a-bubble#comment-2882 Bob, I wouldn't hold up having a 24-hours news channel on as example of the wide-ranging media diet of journalists. I don't have enough time to waste watching the filler and tolerating the noise on cable news (especially in the US but also here in the UK). I watch them clipped up on YouTube or when someone points me to a clip. It's rarely news anyway. Continuous television news doesn't have much place in my media diet. I grab it almost entirely on demand now. I wasn't making a journalist-or-blogger argument. I was making a journalist and blogger argument. As I often say, my reading, viewing, listening habits are voracious and promiscuous. Bob,

I wouldn’t hold up having a 24-hours news channel on as example of the wide-ranging media diet of journalists.

I don’t have enough time to waste watching the filler and tolerating the noise on cable news (especially in the US but also here in the UK). I watch them clipped up on YouTube or when someone points me to a clip. It’s rarely news anyway. Continuous television news doesn’t have much place in my media diet. I grab it almost entirely on demand now.

I wasn’t making a journalist-or-blogger argument. I was making a journalist and blogger argument. As I often say, my reading, viewing, listening habits are voracious and promiscuous.

]]> By: Bob http://strange.corante.com/2008/06/12/information-is-only-scarce-if-you-live-in-a-bubble#comment-2881 Bob Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:41:12 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/2008/06/12/information-is-only-scarce-if-you-live-in-a-bubble#comment-2881 Can we get over the false either-or journalist-blogger debate already? Kevin, do your colleagues who write for the paper Guardian reallly "live in informational silos of their own making"? I don't know any journalists who don't look far and wide for information (multichannel TV included - find me a newsroom where the 24 hour news stations aren't on, 24 hours a day), then look to how value can be added to that - through context, factchecking, shaping, style. And I don't know many bloggers who entirely shun the big-name journalists in their fields, either. Can we get over the false either-or journalist-blogger debate already? Kevin, do your colleagues who write for the paper Guardian reallly “live in informational silos of their own making”? I don’t know any journalists who don’t look far and wide for information (multichannel TV included - find me a newsroom where the 24 hour news stations aren’t on, 24 hours a day), then look to how value can be added to that - through context, factchecking, shaping, style. And I don’t know many bloggers who entirely shun the big-name journalists in their fields, either.

]]> By: Adam Tinworth http://strange.corante.com/2008/06/12/information-is-only-scarce-if-you-live-in-a-bubble#comment-2880 Adam Tinworth Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:44:55 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/2008/06/12/information-is-only-scarce-if-you-live-in-a-bubble#comment-2880 It remains a constant source of amazement and despair to me that so few journalists have any genuine curiosity for things outside their narrow area of interest. It makes me wonder if we've been recruiting badly for decades… It remains a constant source of amazement and despair to me that so few journalists have any genuine curiosity for things outside their narrow area of interest. It makes me wonder if we’ve been recruiting badly for decades…

]]> By: Gerel http://strange.corante.com/2008/06/12/information-is-only-scarce-if-you-live-in-a-bubble#comment-2879 Gerel Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:59:44 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/2008/06/12/information-is-only-scarce-if-you-live-in-a-bubble#comment-2879 I agree that in blogosphere, information and opinions are not judged against the traditional news values and I think social media does stretch the journalistic boundaries in such ways that information and news can be about anything and everything. I agree that in blogosphere, information and opinions are not judged against the traditional news values and I think social media does stretch the journalistic boundaries in such ways that information and news can be about anything and everything.

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