“Enlarging each other is the deepest calling of journalism, whether it’s done by bloggers, anchors or editors.
We are all authors of each other. What we call authority is the right we give others to author us, to make us who we are. That right is one we no longer give only to our newspapers, our magazines, our TV and radio stations. We give it to anybody who helps us learn and understand What’s Going On in the world. In that world the number of amateur informants goes up while the number of editors on newspaper staffs goes down.”
–Doc Searls writing about giant zero journalism, his phrase for how citizen media and big media are both just elements in a user to user continuum where we consume and contribute and play it forward but where big newspapers still just don’t get it (sez Doc).
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“Enlarging each other is the deepest calling of journalism, whether it’s done by bloggers, anchors or editors.
We are all authors of each other. What we call authority is the right we give others to author us, to make us who we are. That right is one we no longer give only to our newspapers, our magazines, our TV and radio stations. We give it to anybody who helps us learn and understand What’s Going On in the world. In that world the number of amateur informants goes up while the number of editors on newspaper staffs goes down.”
–Doc Searls writing about giant zero journalism, his phrase for how citizen media and big media are both just elements in a user to user continuum where we consume and contribute and play it forward but where big newspapers still just don’t get it (sez Doc).
Bonus, related links–