14 February 2005

Another One Bites The Dust I have just spent a couple of hours, which I can't really afford, reviewing the latest "blogstorm". Not long after the demise of Dan Rather, and other senior members of his production team at CBS News, caught out lying in an attempt to influence the last US presidential election, the head of news at CNN, Eason Jordan, resigned last Friday, apparently forced out by a concerted campaign by bloggers, after making some unwise remarks at the WEF in Davos, which was covered by an obscure blogger, which escalated over a few hectic days to culminate in his resignation. Michelle Malkin has a superb, link-filled summary of the whole saga, fascinating and addictive reading. It seems a sad end for a distinguished journalist, and raises all sorts of uncomfortable issues, in the mainstream media, and its relation to the new reality of citizen reporting and the immense power of the new media to affect events in the real world. Naturally, the heavyweights are all over this story, including Glenn Reynolds, Jeff Jarvis and Jay Rosen, among many others, all probably linked from one or all of these luminaries. 8:48:41 PM    comment []