Former CNN producer weighs in on Bloggasm
What Owens’s actions themselves prove, however — the very act of a blogger reaching out and undertaking a careful survey, then writing a column which pieces together the results — proves a point that I’ve been attempting to hammer home for quite a while: true journalism is no longer only the dominion of the major media outlets. Simon Owens used his intellect and his computer to conduct a study which attempts to shed light on a important (and newsworthy) social debate. What’s more, he didn’t do it for a paycheck — he did it because he just wanted to know.
It’s that kind of curiosity that’s the backbone of what a newsperson does every day, and it doesn’t require sanction or validation from an official media organization to be considered journalism
sweet! he is so correct.
i enjoy reading “deus ex malcontent”.