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Tuesday, June 14, 2005

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Michael

Ari,

If the issue is that "citizen journalism" implies that professional journalists aren't citizens, Niles and Kramer may want to reframe the notion; professional journalists are obviously citizens, but they're only citizen journalists when they step away from MSM influence and editorial boards. Frankly, the title that may need a-changin' is "Professional Journalist" to Corporate Journalist. In fact, now that I think of it, professional journalism implies that citizen journalists aren't professionals. How we use our words is important--but so is context.

Hopefully, in the long run, pro journalists can better recognize that free speech for all is a good thing; they should be supporting citizen journalism, grassroots journalism, weblogs, whatever... as free speech. Hey, maybe we can call it free speech journalism?

Ari

Almost sounds like we should be using the modifiers "professional," "semi-professional" and "amateur." Almost :)

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