“A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth. Take this away and a democracy dies. The fusion of news and entertainment, the rise of a class of celebrity journalists on television who define reporting by their access to the famous and the powerful, the retreat by many readers into the ideological ghettos of the Internet and the ruthless drive by corporations to destroy the traditional news business are leaving us deaf, dumb and blind.” LyingDiesPowerfulClassDemocracyInformationTelevisionSourceReaderInternetCitizensNewsBlindLeavingEntertainmentAccessTraditionalDumbJournalistCorporationsRetreatDeafRuthlessIdeologicalGhettoTrustworthyFusion Author:Chris Hedges
“It amazes me to witness the masochism with which some journalists characterize their industry as a dying species. The future belongs to citizen journalism and blogs.” DyingIndustryCitizensSpeciesJournalismWitnessJournalistBlogsMasochismCitizen Journalism Author:Mathias Dopfner
“There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities. If Facebook requires the use of real names, that could potentially put Chinese citizens in danger.” IfsLongRealUseNamesDangerCitizensAuthorityTraditionChinaProtectionChineseJournalistPensRetaliation Author:Michael Anti
“The most depressing thing about blogging is watching so-called 'citizen journalists' turn in to little more than easily offended partisan hacks. Any remark that is slightly less than completely and totally scripted and can give the slightest opportunity to offend some delicate soul somewhere is used to set off a series of partisan screeches and cries of outrage that would make the Church Lady jealous.” GivingLittlesSoulUsedTurnsOpportunityChurchCryCitizensSeriesJournalistJealousDelicateDepressingOffendedRemarksOutragePartisansBloggingHacksMost DepressingEasily OffendedChurch Lady Author:John Cole
“have a lot of respect for the responsibility that journalists have to ask tough questions, to hold the administration accountable and to be advocates for the citizens of the United States.” StatesAsksUnitedResponsibilityUnited StatesCitizensToughAdministrationJournalistTough Questions Author:Josh Earnest
“Moving forward, investigative journalists need to train themselves to be media amphibians - just as comfortable with the classic verities of great journalism as they are with video, Twitter, Facebook, and, most importantly, citizen journalism.” NeedsMovingMediaCitizensComfortableTrainVideoMoving ForwardJournalismJournalistClassicAmphibiansCitizen Journalism Author:Arianna Huffington
“Citizen journalists can attend events traditional journalists are kept from - or have overlooked - or find and highlight the small but evocative story happening right next door. By tapping this resource, news sites can extend their reach and help redefine news gathering in the digital age.” HelpingStoriesAgeNextDoorsEventsCitizensNewsHappeningsResourcesTraditionalJournalistDigitalSiteGatheringHighlightsOverlookedDigital AgeTapping Author:Arianna Huffington
“A good person is one who follows the Ten Commandments and the golden rule. There is plenty of precedent in history to guide us and we probably evolved to be sensitive to Bible-Golden Rule situations. But the dilemmas faced by a worker - a journalist, an architect, an auditor - or by a citizen (what position to take on stem cell research, whether to run for office, what is the proper balance between taxation and social nets) - are not questions that can be answered by traditional texts or precedents.” PersonsRunningSocialSituationPositionBalanceCitizensTenOfficeResearchWorkersGuidesTraditionalGoldenPlentyCellsJournalistSensitiveArchitectCommandmentsStemTaxationGood PersonDilemmaGolden RulePrecedentTen CommandmentsStem CellStem Cell ResearchAuditors Author:Howard Gardner