We will miss the coverage and comedy of the White House Correspondents' dinner. That was an easy target for Trump to take out. As you pointed out, what will prove more difficult and costly are efforts to control citizen journalism.
Keep in mind three points: 1) Citizen journalists were the first form of news gathering and sharing for centuries, 2) Industrial society introduced education, training, ethics, mentorships, and the first School of Journalism in 1908 at the University of Missouri, and 3) 80 years later in 1988 the introduction of the Internet, blogs, and crowd source event coverage started the situation we have today with millions of reporters, writers, platforms, and personal websites.
The news challenge is on the reader, who must stay awake and alert to lies, damn lies, propaganda, psychological word spinning, bias, assumptions, opinions, and sloppy writing. Filters, good judgment, and fact-checking are required to find truths.
Even if Trump succeeds in destroying the Bill of Rights, which starts with the First Amendment--freedom of the press-- it's a far bigger job than the WHC buzzkill to stop millions of cell phones in constant connection, globally, on the Internet, from gathering and reporting news and images.
We will miss the coverage and comedy of the White House Correspondents' dinner. That was an easy target for Trump to take out. As you pointed out, what will prove more difficult and costly are efforts to control citizen journalism.
Keep in mind three points: 1) Citizen journalists were the first form of news gathering and sharing for centuries, 2) Industrial society introduced education, training, ethics, mentorships, and the first School of Journalism in 1908 at the University of Missouri, and 3) 80 years later in 1988 the introduction of the Internet, blogs, and crowd source event coverage started the situation we have today with millions of reporters, writers, platforms, and personal websites.
The news challenge is on the reader, who must stay awake and alert to lies, damn lies, propaganda, psychological word spinning, bias, assumptions, opinions, and sloppy writing. Filters, good judgment, and fact-checking are required to find truths.
Even if Trump succeeds in destroying the Bill of Rights, which starts with the First Amendment--freedom of the press-- it's a far bigger job than the WHC buzzkill to stop millions of cell phones in constant connection, globally, on the Internet, from gathering and reporting news and images.
Informed passion, powerfully and clearly presented. Thank you, Georgia.
I always appreciate your clarity and verve! ❤️❤️❤️ Thank you for what you do! 😃🤗💪
You are kind. You energize me, Julie.
You started it! 😃❤️🤗