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Citizen Media and Why I Unsubscribed from the PCMag Radio Podcast

April 18, 2007 |

I was listening to the PC Mag Radio podcast this morning. I had subscribed a few weeks ago and actually enjoyed the show.

In the latest episode, though, the group starts talking about how useless blogs, citizen journalists and crowdsourcing are. Besides trashing every blogger out there (here?), they take on wikipedia, and the idea that a group of people might actually be able do to things better and faster than trained journalists.

Hey, these guys went to school after all. They must be good.

This seems especially laughable after the events at Virginia Tech last weekend. Maybe journalists are better writers than most bloggers, but it was BoingBoing that had people discuss the meaning of Ismail Ax, while the mainstream media was busy trolling facebook for students to interview. Oh, and where did the pictures of the VT campus come from if not from a random guy’s cellphone camera? And talk about misreporting by the mainstream media (and then altering history afterwards)

How often have you cringed when a journalist talked about anything tech related on TV? I would rather have a blogger there who knows what he is talking about.

The elitism displayed in the latest episode made me cringe enough to hit the ‘delete’ button in

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