Comments on: Mainstream Media Blog Check

By: Blogging and journalism: Reinvention or destruction? « Random Thoughts of a Student of the Environment

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:37:35 +0000

[...] BAR – A very good post by Rebecca picked up on these points last year, and it’s still very [...]

By: Miss604’s Canuck Life :: A Vancouver Blog » Blog Archive » Journalist-Only Club, No Bloggers Allowed

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:28:46 +0000

[...] allowed to blog and it’s perfectly acceptable, whether or not they’re doing a good job can be argued, but it’s now becoming the norm. However, I find the general attitude towards the concept of [...]

By: sean orr

sean orr — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:43:27 +0000

Nothing to say really. If I don’t have something really awful to say, don’t say it at all!

By: Raul

Raul — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:54:00 +0000

Sorry, last comment I promise, but while we are on this topic, this appeared on my “Quotes of the Week”

“To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.”
– Aleister Crowley

And here is the link source:
http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27700.html

Thoughts?

By: Rod

Rod — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:35:53 +0000

I have to agree with Buzz on this one, too. A lot of times the stuff that makes it to the paper and on to the TV is delayed due to the fact that MSM journalists will fact check and verify sources before reporting anything (well, usually, any way). Bloggers don’t have to do that, obviously, but the better ones, who want to be taken as a reliable source of information/news, generally try to follow the same rules.

As for why the Province didn’t hire bloggers? Probably the unions, like Darren mentioned, but they’re really just columnists. At least they allow comments, though.

By: Miss604

Miss604 — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:41:16 +0000

Full credit goes to JJ who did the comparison and calculations back in September.

And yes, the morning brew link love is awesome – although I was surprised there was no comment, just a nice little phrase and a link.

By: Raul

Raul — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:38:13 +0000

I completely understand your frustration. That was a whooping 9 days after your post. But then again, you are one heck of a talented Vancouver blogger and you have good ideas – it will just take some mainstream media a few days to pick up on these (that is, until we have established the bridges we’ve been talking about).

By the way, have you checked the local link love from Beyond Robson’s Morning Brew?

By: Miss604

Miss604 — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:56:36 +0000

News 1130 reports this morning that Canucks ticket prices have risen "The price of a ticket is up 12% this year, and you know you'll be shelling out for a highly overpriced beer and hot dog if you go to the game." Oh man, if only we knew about this before.

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:44:21 +0000

And why didn’t The Province hire existing Canucks bloggers to write their new hockey blogs? I assume ‘unions’ are the answer, but I’ll be curious to see if they sustain themselves, and gather a readership.

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:42:09 +0000

Great post. I remember last year when the Vancouver Sun launched a short-lived ‘From the Blogosphere’ weekly editorial by some guy who didn’t have a blog. I was kind of shocked that they didn’t hit up, you know, you or me or Boris or any local blogger who actually has a corner lot in the blogosphere.

One thing the mainstream media has is subheadings–I’ve embraced them for the longer posts, and I’m trying to spread the good news.