Well, there I was, travelling to work this morning...well Husband of Mine was acting as chauffeur bless, allowing me those wonderful vague meanderings of thought during my morning commute without the babble of the general public around me... and I had what I thought to be one of those lightbulb moments...a flash of creativity...
It went along the lines of 'hmmmm...Blogging could be thought of as journalism by the public for the public....'
When I got home this evening I thought I'd do the old Wikipedia search as to what the definition of journalism was and found this:
"Journalism is the craft of conveying news, descriptive material and comment via a widening spectrum of media. These include newspapers, magazines, radio and television, the internet and even, more recently, the cellphone (or mobile phone)...."
It went on to say...
'...The rapid rise of Internet technology, in particular the advent of blogging and social networking software, further destabilize journalism as traditionally understood and its practitioners as a distinct professional category. Combined with the increasing leakage of advertising revenue from pre-existing journalistic media into the internet, the full impact of the arrival of the citizen journalist—potentially positive (proliferation having thus far proved more difficult to police) as well as negative—is yet to be seen.'
Once I got past my initial reaction to the thought of destabilizing journalism (?????) I clicked the link attached to 'Citizen Journalist'....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_journalist
A rather interesting read (well I thought so :) ) ...
So, my lightbulb moment wasn't unique..sad but true...(a little bit like early humans on different continents making fire or similar tools from bits of their environment without being able to see what the others have done....) More importantly though, it took me on a brief but informative journey that makes me feel like I'm a small player in a bigger game... I may not be a trained or experienced journalist, but it doesn't put journalism beyond my reach, any more than not being a fully trained artist or singer put drawing or singing outside my reach, although I do feel some sympathy for those who have to read, view or listen...remember folks... practice makes perfect ;)
Hmmm....'citizen journalist'... I like that! Think that may work its way into my header somewhere... :)
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