Comments on: Politico wonders if the right will ever get cyber-journalists http://bearingdrift.com/2008/07/24/politico-wonders-if-the-right-will-ever-get-cyber-journalists/ Fri, 25 May 2012 04:21:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Who Wants to be WFB? http://bearingdrift.com/2008/07/24/politico-wonders-if-the-right-will-ever-get-cyber-journalists/#comment-4720 Who Wants to be WFB? Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:05:25 +0000 http://bearingdrift.com/?p=751#comment-4720 [...] They may have a point. However, they overlook a few things. As Jim Hoeft points out, most of us have real jobs. [...] [...] They may have a point. However, they overlook a few things. As Jim Hoeft points out, most of us have real jobs. [...]

]]> By: Reid Greenmun http://bearingdrift.com/2008/07/24/politico-wonders-if-the-right-will-ever-get-cyber-journalists/#comment-4690 Reid Greenmun Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:44:34 +0000 http://bearingdrift.com/?p=751#comment-4690 I think the current crop of jouranlists desire to "build a relationship" with government sources and therefore they stay away from reporting on situations that might cause their government sources to stop retruning their calls. I think the current crop of jouranlists desire to “build a relationship” with government sources and therefore they stay away from reporting on situations that might cause their government sources to stop retruning their calls.

]]> By: Rick Caldwell http://bearingdrift.com/2008/07/24/politico-wonders-if-the-right-will-ever-get-cyber-journalists/#comment-4682 Rick Caldwell Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:21:47 +0000 http://bearingdrift.com/?p=751#comment-4682 <blockquote>Journalists are people who report what other people are doing.</blockquote> I suppose that might be related to my point. I just don't think there are enough journalists questioning what <em>government people</em> are doing to <em>us</em>. The current crop of journalists just assume government has whatever authority it claims to have, and doesn't force the bureaucrats to explain themselves enough. If the "journalists" aren't going to be the watchdogs, citizen journalists will have to be. Then again, citizen journalists apparently aren't journalist enough for bureaucrats in Suffolk, or police in Chesapeake.

Journalists are people who report what other people are doing.

I suppose that might be related to my point. I just don’t think there are enough journalists questioning what government people are doing to us. The current crop of journalists just assume government has whatever authority it claims to have, and doesn’t force the bureaucrats to explain themselves enough. If the “journalists” aren’t going to be the watchdogs, citizen journalists will have to be.

Then again, citizen journalists apparently aren’t journalist enough for bureaucrats in Suffolk, or police in Chesapeake.

]]> By: Brian Kirwin http://bearingdrift.com/2008/07/24/politico-wonders-if-the-right-will-ever-get-cyber-journalists/#comment-4681 Brian Kirwin Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:09:28 +0000 http://bearingdrift.com/?p=751#comment-4681 I don't think Politico's comments are restricted to the blogosphere. Republicans in general don't flood the news industry trying to be reporters. Journalists are people who report what other people are doing. Maybe Republicans are too busy actually doing than to spend their lives reporting what other people do. I don’t think Politico’s comments are restricted to the blogosphere. Republicans in general don’t flood the news industry trying to be reporters.

Journalists are people who report what other people are doing. Maybe Republicans are too busy actually doing than to spend their lives reporting what other people do.

]]> By: Rick Caldwell http://bearingdrift.com/2008/07/24/politico-wonders-if-the-right-will-ever-get-cyber-journalists/#comment-4680 Rick Caldwell Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:59:11 +0000 http://bearingdrift.com/?p=751#comment-4680 Coincidentally enough, I've been contemplating something similar to the thesis of this article for my own website. I've been seeking an expansion beyond blogging that includes forums and blogs for visitors. But I also want my site to have a component of breking news. I'm not sure if I want to become a news site or to investigate news stories broken by mainstream sources. Most outlets parrot the press releases and news conferences from their government sources, then don't ask any deeper questions than that, and I'd like to ask the questions that question government's authority. But I'm neither right nor left. I'm a sovereign individualist (think Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine, Adam Smith...). I don't want to be the libertarian Bill Buckley, nor do I want to be the libertarian NYT. My goal is to be a citizen journalist and an activist. I wonder how someone like me fits into the model that the Politico article has built here. Coincidentally enough, I’ve been contemplating something similar to the thesis of this article for my own website. I’ve been seeking an expansion beyond blogging that includes forums and blogs for visitors. But I also want my site to have a component of breking news. I’m not sure if I want to become a news site or to investigate news stories broken by mainstream sources. Most outlets parrot the press releases and news conferences from their government sources, then don’t ask any deeper questions than that, and I’d like to ask the questions that question government’s authority.

But I’m neither right nor left. I’m a sovereign individualist (think Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine, Adam Smith…). I don’t want to be the libertarian Bill Buckley, nor do I want to be the libertarian NYT. My goal is to be a citizen journalist and an activist. I wonder how someone like me fits into the model that the Politico article has built here.

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