Authority. Old media had it but is new media getting it?

September 1st, 2008

Thanks to the MWF, The 7:30 Report and Radio National, I’ve heard and seen a lot about Bloggers, Citizen Journalism and “New Media” journalism in the last week. All of the discussion seems to point to a decline in the quality and authority of traditional journalism and a consequent rise for Bloggers, although the kinds of websites that are producing quality reporting can hardly be called blogs any longer.

Show us yer Nogs!

Nogs, an abbreviation of News Blogs … No I really don’t think that will catch on.