Jay Rosen, Wonkette, and Scott Johnson of Powerline were on WYNC, public radio in New York City, talking about blogs this morning.
Here's the link -- it's screwy at the WYNC page, but I guessed the address from the links that are posted...and voila.
Jay spoke about what's going on in Greensboro, which he says has a "very active blogging culture," and a paper that is interested in creating a public forum where the community is informing itself.
He thinks blogs will allow reporters for newspapers to extend their network of sources throughout the citizenry, beyond the traditional sources within institutions and power structures -- reporting will now extend horizontally into the citizenry, reporters will see blogs as "learning machines."
Wonkette and Johnson have some trouble grasping Jay's point about the new citizen's press informing the larger media culture. Jay: "It's hardly an abstraction, it's happening now," says it's not that hard to understand.
Johnson's tale of how Powerline busted Dan Rather was fascinating, but he sounds really arrogant. "Most of the people who do this for a living are not very smart," he blithely generalizes about professional journalists.
Sydney and I caught part of this broadcast while running last-minute errands in the NY suburbs. Gratifying to know that folks up here in the provinces are catching up on what's going on in Greensboro...
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