Sat, 06 Nov 2004 22:31:48
Brokaw backhandedly compliments bloggers
Via Daily Pundit, here’s a little money quote from Brokaw.
For the TV media, it was a brutal election year, with everything recast in the fires of the Internet, especially network news. His rival at CBS News was dismantled by needle-nosed bloggers and Fox News aced the networks in the ratings on convention coverage. Mr. Brokaw said the blogs had altered everything.
“I think that they’re big,” he said. “I think they have changed it. Exactly what their role is going to be is still to be determined. There’s still a certain amount of hubris at this point, but I do think that they’re now a fixed part of this universe. The danger is always that you have newspapers without editors, and there will be a shakeout process, people will learn who they can trust, who’s reliable, who’s got real insights and who’s just self-indulgent—it’s very much like the traditional business.”
When will he learn that bloggers have more editors than any newspaper on earth?
They’re called readers, and you can’t put anything over on them because for each topic about which we choose to write, someone, somwhere knows a hell of a lot more on that very subject and is just dying to share their knowledge.
Posted by JimK at 10:31 PM on November 06, 2004
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#1 Posted by Helo
on 11/07 at 12:03 AM -
I don’t think there’s ever been an occasion where I haven’t asked a question over the blogosphere and NOT received an accurate, to the point answer.
Take that, Brokaw.