How do you explain New Media to Old Media? The past couple of days have been about the whole blogging v. traditional journalism bit (well that, and the whole MSFT+YHOO merger break down). Fellow bloggers like @jester1225 in “Confessions of a ‘New Media’ Heretic (or, the jester-in-exile throws yet another gauntlet before the MSM ‘priest caste’),” J in “Thoughts on blogging v. traditional journalism,” DJB in Talk About Kettles Calling Pots Black are all must read posts on blogging v. traditional journalism. @digitalfilipino’s tweet: “Blog readers are not fools. They discern, can detect bullshit, and challenge a blogger’s point of view. Best, they can decide not to read u,” sums it all up really. As I agree with their points of view, I must posit that this is more than just about blogging v. traditional journalism. This is about misconceptions about New Media vis-a-vis Old Media.
This post is really long with lots of embedded video and since it isn’t really about social commentary, you can read more at my blog.
(updated) And oh, this just came in via Silicon Alley Insider (which really confirms my practice and that of others like me re newspapers): Breaking News! Young People Don’t Like Newspapers, News to be Free in Future!
Tags: new media, pinoy blogosphere
You can’t explain new media to old media. You just have to dive into it and see where it takes you. So I suggest that bloggers just chill out and don’t take the flack from old media too seriously. Just keep on blogging.
Pochero,
well, if taken to the extreme and people just stop trying to explain to old media what’s it about then, yeah, they’ll never get it.
but if people bothered to read and see the content, and take sometime to get it and see that this isn’t about a war, then maybe people will get it.
i hope you get it that this isn’t about taking flack from old media… it is about explaining what this new thing is… and maybe if even one of them gets converted then, wouldn’t that be great?