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understandinglife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-16-05 05:49 PM
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Jay Rosen: "People of CBS News, the Net knows more than you."
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Jay Rosen was asked to be the first guest blogger at Public Eye, the new blog that acts like an ombudsman (sort of) at CBS News. His first post entitled, "Outside Voices: Jay Rosen's Open Letter To CBS" appeared today:

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2005/09/16/publiceye/entry851751.shtml

The Public Eye link is:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/08/30/publiceye/main805566.shtml


Jay Rosen also published an expanded version at Huffington Post and here are a few snipits:

The Net Knows More Than You: An Open Letter to the People of CBS News

Things are looking up for you guys. Public Eye is part of that. The transparency revolution in network news has started, and CBS gets the credit for going first. But I want to make sure you understand it, and how we got here.

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Why do people read blogs? On September 20th of last year I did a post called: "Did the President of CBS News Have Anyone in Charge of Reading the Internet and Sending Alerts?" (He didn't.) This week is Public Eye's debut. It puts Vaughn Ververs and his staff in charge of reading the Internet and sending alerts.

On January 10th of this year I suggested at my blog that CBS News "could publish on the Internet (as transcript and video) the full interviews from which each segment that airs is made. All interviews, every frame. Even the interviews that were not used." The Web makes it doable and it would help with transparency, I said.

Six months later Larry Kramer told CJR Daily: "We're going to be offering up what used to be considered just work product... there's no reason we can't allow our users to see the whole thirty-minute interview if they want." The Web makes it possible and it would help with transparency, he said.

More at the link:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jay-rosen/the-net-knows-more-than-y_b_7479.html


As Rosen notes "I'm a journalism professor, and here is my verdict: Transparency will absolutely change you, and it already has. If you don't change with it, you will lose.

Same applies to our government.


Peace.






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