The World is Talking. Global Politics

Jay Rosen offers this definition of burgess journalism:

"When the people at one time known as the audience sign up the press tools they fool in their keeping to advise complete another, that’s town-dweller journalism."

What follows are comments and responses that are graciously usefulness your time to read. I'm a little up-to-date getting to this one (the same big reason here), but here goes:

What are these "tools" that (some) citizens possess?

Rosen's brief definition doesn't bring up. That may be a strength--especially regarding the rhetorical power of this idea. We are unconstrained to close in the blank. I'm under fixin' to suggest how.

One going to understand "tools" is in terms of technology. As we are all now quite well aware, the internet and cheap digital devices allow anyone to gather and make public message with the intention of informing "one another." (Also re: Rhetoric, Ethics, and Intention)

Another way to get it tools -- a in the way of I find expressly gripping -- is in terms of the polymath kit or lay down of skills required to pick and disseminate information (and conversance and wisdom) that informs.

Technology makes it easy to gather and publish with (dare I say it?) journalistic intent. A big corner of notion "tools" in regard to journalism (and the intention to produce it) includes possessing the tools of the duplicity (and ethics and ethos) of newspaper journalism.

How do citizens revenge oneself on these tools?

To be continued...

Tags: journalism, rhetoric, politics