http://www.andydickinson.net/2007/03/02/journalism-blogs-you-bunch-of-wasters-you/ online journalism, newspaper video and digital media Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:19:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-RC1-10015 hourly 1 http://www.andydickinson.net/2007/03/02/journalism-blogs-you-bunch-of-wasters-you/comment-page-1/#comment-226 : Andy Dickinson.net Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:16:21 +0000 http://andydickinson.com/?p=216#comment-226 [...] I was linked in dispatches from Shane Richmond at the Telegraph this week regarding my thoughts on  Alan Hiscock;s anti-blog comments.  Shane is spot on when he say Alan: …may not know much about blogs but has certainly stumbled across trolling. [...] [...] I was linked in dispatches from Shane Richmond at the Telegraph this week regarding my thoughts on  Alan Hiscock;s anti-blog comments.  Shane is spot on when he say Alan: …may not know much about blogs but has certainly stumbled across trolling. [...]

]]> http://www.andydickinson.net/2007/03/02/journalism-blogs-you-bunch-of-wasters-you/comment-page-1/#comment-225 Martin Stabe » links for 2007-03-04 Sun, 04 Mar 2007 12:21:36 +0000 http://andydickinson.com/?p=216#comment-225 [...] Andy Dickinson.net: Journalism blogs: You bunch of wasters, you. Andy Dickinson spots in impressive rant against American journalism, blogs and online journalism generally by self-proclaimed non-dinosaur journalism educator Alan Hiscock. I really hope this isn’t what Hiscock is teaching his students. (tags: journalism education blogs online) [...] [...] Andy Dickinson.net: Journalism blogs: You bunch of wasters, you. Andy Dickinson spots in impressive rant against American journalism, blogs and online journalism generally by self-proclaimed non-dinosaur journalism educator Alan Hiscock. I really hope this isn’t what Hiscock is teaching his students. (tags: journalism education blogs online) [...]

]]> http://www.andydickinson.net/2007/03/02/journalism-blogs-you-bunch-of-wasters-you/comment-page-1/#comment-224 Martin Stabe » Forget blogs: it’s the ‘crogs’ you want Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:44:15 +0000 http://andydickinson.com/?p=216#comment-224 [...] Of course, noe of this will ever convince the dinosaurs — particularly those who insist they are not dinosaurs while arguing that all this blogging an new media stuff is American tosh. [...] [...] Of course, noe of this will ever convince the dinosaurs — particularly those who insist they are not dinosaurs while arguing that all this blogging an new media stuff is American tosh. [...]

]]> http://www.andydickinson.net/2007/03/02/journalism-blogs-you-bunch-of-wasters-you/comment-page-1/#comment-223 Claire Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:57:49 +0000 http://andydickinson.com/?p=216#comment-223 Where does this constant torrent of anti-online abuse spring from? A journalist is a journalist is a journalist. Why is it that those steeped in the inkstained annals of history feel the need to constantly undermine the work of those online? Virtual no longer means 'not real/proper'. Is it jealousy that they would like to have free reign? More likely it's fear that they are being left behind and the bloggers, with their greater flexibility in form, style and mix of opinion and fact, are simply mouse-clicking invisible psychological buttons. Moving online did not strip me of my award-winning journalistic 'superpowers', it just added skills and a new viewpoint on what the media is. It's multi. It's just sad that multi-talented is such a dirty word in some mouths. (Just for the record, I do have a blog which is restricted by a newspaper brief. New definition of irony?). Where does this constant torrent of anti-online abuse spring from? A journalist is a journalist is a journalist. Why is it that those steeped in the inkstained annals of history feel the need to constantly undermine the work of those online? Virtual no longer means ‘not real/proper’.
Is it jealousy that they would like to have free reign? More likely it’s fear that they are being left behind and the bloggers, with their greater flexibility in form, style and mix of opinion and fact, are simply mouse-clicking invisible psychological buttons.
Moving online did not strip me of my award-winning journalistic ’superpowers’, it just added skills and a new viewpoint on what the media is. It’s multi. It’s just sad that multi-talented is such a dirty word in some mouths.
(Just for the record, I do have a blog which is restricted by a newspaper brief. New definition of irony?).

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