Shirky - social media has changed the way news is delivered. "Mass amateurization" alows anyone with a social media tool to spread a news story.
Raises a number of issues. Legal questions - Kevin Sites. Fired from CNN for blogging then started a blog on his own. Who is going to control the future of news? Shirky discusses tenets of a profession - norms, processes, practices. What of these when the profession itself has been changed to such a degree?
Article in Tallahassee Democrat reinforces this concept. Friday, July 3, 2009. Associate editor Meredith Clark describes that journalism has trailed behind the public relations field in terms of adopting social media.
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