http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2009/04/media-insiders-say-internet-hurts-journalism
Freedom of speech is so important. We can by using Internet journalism get information out to the world in a manner of selected speech. The problems of censorship are evident in the article from a Reuter’s story about how censorship can affect business. http://worldjournalism.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/wto-can-take-on-censorship/
Alexander Bickel, in The Morality of Consent (New Haven: Yale Uni Press 1975) stated that there is disagreement among journalists concerning risk and dangers in print and broadcast journalism. The article I cite below lists identified mechanisms for “restricting the collection and dissemination of fact and commentary by journalists and publishers”.
• “licensing of the publication, publisher or journalist (often with severe penalties for unauthorised publications or statements)
• scrutiny and authorisation of content on a publication or item basis, with inhouse censors active in newspapers in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and contemporary China
• defamation, discussed in detail elsewhere on this site, with litigation punishing or deterring publishers and authors
• denial of access to particular locations (eg natural disaster areas or battlefields) and to people or venues (for example rationing of access to media conferences and restriction to accredited journalists at conferences)
• prohibition on the publication of particular statements or news, including 'D Notice' schemes in some democracies and more comprehensive bans in totalitarian states such as China and Cuba on anything from public discussion of the autocrat's health to coverage of industrial disasters or the prevalence of Avian influenza
• 'spontaneous' popular action, including beating or threatening of journalists, mob violence damaging broadcasting equipment and printing presses, and occupation of the editorial areas of newspaper and book publishing organisations “
Censorship of journalism is troublesome and even disturbing. Take a look at what this website offers regarding censorship during wartime.
“Censorship during times of war or civil unrest has a range of objectives -
• suppression of 'information that would be useful to the enemy' - what most people think of as wartime censorship - including information that facilitates identification of military targets (or their status after attack)
• suppression of information that would discourage the domestic population or armed forces (and thereby 'give comfort to the enemy'), for example information about military losses, incompetence or corruption
• suppression of information that would erode relations with allies, neutral countries/organisations and with 'international opinion'
It has taken different forms, including -
• jamming of enemy or neutral broadcasts and prohibition on import/dissemination of overseas publications
• use of the 'censor's 'blue pencil' to delete content from personal correspondence, news service reports, broadcast scripts and newspaper/journals prior to publication
• seizure of individual issues of newspapers or journals that 'escaped' the blue pencil (with punishment or suppression of the publication for repeated breaches)
• prohibitions on the broadcast of interviews with (or even publication of statements by) terrorist leaders
• restrictions on who gets to report news and where they are allowed to go, with for example 'official correspondents', embedded journalists and journalism pools that can only process official communiques by military minders rather than independently collect information from civilians and troops
• self censorship, whether by individual journalists and editors (out of perceptions of national interest, 'responsible reporting', personal interest or merely to preempt tighter regulation) or by organisations and their spokespeople (notably the obscene failure of the Roman Catholic Church and International Red Cross to speak out during the Holocaust)”
http://www.caslon.com.au/censorshipguide12.htm
The issues surrounding Internet journalism are
complex. I think it will be an unending number of years (if ever) before it is all sorted out to anyone’s satisfaction.
Some say the Internet will do much more that survive – “it will thrive.” I think this myself. Thrive and prosperity for journalists is what will come. The collaborative technologies of digital convergence will figure it out for us. We may (and I mean the future generations) not have to figure it out. Journalists have to keep up with this technological “Internet Age” because if they don’t they may find their hard or soft cover published works deep inside closets where lonely souls sits alone in hiding, gripping tightly to last few shreds of what is left of the paper falling apart as dust…
Content of valued issues, abundant with uniqueness is what is important but it has to be done without stealing other works. Creative Commons will allow use of parts of works and sharing other parts and even giving some of it away but the best will come from those journalists with their own ideas and those who know the importance of morals and truth.
Reuters “focuses primarily on the importance of vertical and niche markets that have subscription-oriented models” and this is where the revenues come from mostly. They focus on locating creators as they are demanded by readers and they “provide valuable services – not just content.” They say it is about letting the creator find their own best monetization model. Monetization = turning something into legal tender.
Check out “Monetization by Social Networks” at http://monetizationreport.com/monetization-via-social-networks/Received from Creative Commons Flickr – Sharing some rights reserved license
Has anyone checked out the monetization tab on blogger.com? Has anyone here in this class actually used this tab? If you have I’d like to hear about it.
I’ve been wondering about who pays the journalist? I am still looking for a concrete answer that I can trust.
Reuters promises a lot in the “evolution to a new golden age of journalism”. See article http://blogs.reuters.com/from-reuterscom/2009/12/11/how-will-journalism-survive-the-internet
Citizen journalism is done by those who are not journalists. One does not have to go to college to become a journalist. Alternatives are possible through the Internet. Newspapers are losing money due to the alternatives of the Internet. People can sit down for breakfast and read the blogs of many bright and intelligent people, people who may or may not know quite a lot. Then if they want to one can comment on the blog and keep a succession of comments going, conversations and exchanges between oneself and someone who may be across the world or right next door, without ever leaving the breakfast nook. Yes, I think blogging is a form of journalism. The video below talks about this same issue.
And in the following video you will hear more about the ”revolution of citizen journalism”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58iZpMRclwI&feature=player_embedded#
Live blogging has taken off and people are seeing it as a valued thing to do. People have things to say and people want to hear it. Not only are say, two foot ball commentators able to say important things about a game, other people who are long time football enthusiasts have things to say. Blogging works for them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nId46V6B4kI&feature=player_embedded#
The important things to remember when taking the stance of a citizen journalist and/or blogger are included in the Handbook of Journalism article. http://handbook.reuters.com/index.php?title=Reporting_from_the_internet&printable=yes
Internet journalists must use the same ethics of other journalists, identify and verify sources, no misrepresentation. Finding information on the web is great, but using it must be done in mater fair to the creator. Always knowing what is illegal and legal to use is essential in good journalism, on the Internet or otherwise. “Copyright laws, and libel laws, apply to the internet too.”
Just as when we post something in our blogs for this class, it is important to tell the reader where we got the information. I know I even leave this step out sometimes but with practice I am getting better at remembering to give credit where credit is due.
“Just wait a couple of years and internet will be all controlled respecting the copyright!”
Comment from dimi at 4:08 pm on 1/04/09
From: http://www.kcnn.org/resources/csm_fair_use/
Social media use has many principles that need to be followed. They include being accurate when you post messages, don’t use it to embarrass or harass others. Be careful what you post because it reflects upon you as a professional person. You may even want to have separate accounts for personal and professional. Use your privacy settings wisely. Remember others will look at your output. Be fair and use good taste and judgment when you are posting anything.
Think about what you will post before you post it. Don’t post when you are angry against those posts that influence you negatively or just infuriate you. What if your post appeared on the front page of a magazine or newspaper? Don’t ruin your credibility.
If you really care about something, say politically great go ahead and post something but be prepared for the backlash against your opinion or views. Can you take it? Can you back up your point of view? Sometimes it may be best to leave out your political affiliation. Clear you cache on a regular basis.
Be transparent about who you are when you are trying to sell something. Transparency is key to trust. Do not be vague or give conflicting statements that appear to be hiding the truth. When you are using a professional account to sell a product or an idea aim not to be too personal and do not give irrelevant material about your personal information.
If you must make a correction to earlier post begin the new post with “CORRECTION” and then be implicitly clear about what is being corrected.
Wikipedia is great and fun! Do not use it as your only source of information and definition. Many people write in Wikipedia and not all of them are accurate. Do not quote from Wikipedia. There are better sources to get your quotes from.
http://handbook.reuters.com/index.php:title=Reproting_from_the_internet&printable=yes
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I have found I will be able to utilize “Knight Citizen News Network – "Interviewing, a Practical Guide for Citizen Journalists” for work in another class." The website is very interesting. http://www.kcnn.org/
This book is now on my "To Read" list.
You covered a lot of information, good for you! There were a couple of things that got me thinking. I agree that creative commons would allow people to take parts of different writing to form the best, more accurate information but I also think it could have the opposite effect and facts and comments could be taken out of context and worked into a story in a way the that the original offer did not intend.
ReplyDeleteI also agree that bloggers not professionals, many without a college degree. I think that may be what our society has come to; one where the English language means little and engagement means a lot.
I liked your post. I did read that you think that books and newspapers are going to end up in the closets somewhere because of the internet taking over. That is probably true, although I hope not! The internet does open up alot in the ways of people posting their opinions and some not so nice. But I guess thats what you have to expect. Yes Wikipedia is not a very reliable source if you ask me, there are way too many corrections made on that page and you never know whats right or whats wrong.
ReplyDeleteI do not think that the internet will take over and leave books and newspapers in the closet. However it will change the media landscape in many ways but with new technologies old ones are usually incorporated or are specialized TV did not destroy the use and need for newspapers, radio, magazines, or any other form of media but it did force these industries to adapt to a new business model. I do believe the Internet is forcing change but it will never completely take over all other forms of media but rather will incorporate them in new way.
ReplyDeleteHello K,
ReplyDeleteYou always have an animated site. There is one thing that I forgot to quote in my blog and is happenning now! George Or'Well's book Nineteen eighty Four had workers shredding evidence or print journalism 24 hours a day for the last 5 years of any print; because the country (Oceania) did not want their citizens to know the real truth that they were still at war with Asia-something?; and all the while they were still at war but the people though there was peace. This is happenning now with large search-engine organizations that buy up small archive companiesand than in turn digitalize the content and or use the information to sell on sites like this blog of yours with ADSense; and this is theft and they have already have erased many archived historical spanish-speaking books from Mexico and other countries (NYU) In addition, there are not any laws to enforce this illegal actions by these search-engines; however, NYU is making a data system called "B2B" that helps stop the illegal theft and to be able to archive intellectual works (NYU).