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Does Blogging & Twitter Represent the End of Journalism as We Know It?

March 5th, 2009 • pamelalyn
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It seems that comedian and host of “Real Time” Bill Maher thinks that it just might.

In fact, last Friday night, he devoted a portion of his “New Rules” segment to a little Blogging/Twitter bashing. Bill’s concern is that we are becoming a society that gets more of its news from Twitter and opinion blogs than from sources of real journalism.

Does he have a point?

Does a large portion of our society get the bulk of its news from DailyKos, The Drudge Report, Black Agenda Report and Michelle Malkin?

If that’s true then it clearly explains why we’re such a partisan nation … and Sarah Palin.

Or do more people get their news from CNN, MSNBC and FoxNews?

What about The View, The Daily Show, the Colbert Report or … Real Time with Bill Maher?

I would hope that most people are ingesting a balanced diet of print media, cable news, info-tainment, blogs and social media. But I suspect that only a small segment of the population is in this group.

Tonight at 9pm EST members of The Political Voices of Women and Hypocrisy.com will be addressing topics like this during a live blog discussion on Journalism, Blogging and Social Media.

The discussion agenda includes:

* The Journalistic Value, or lack thereof, in Blogging and Social Media?
* Which factor has greater degree of culpability for the decline of
print media .. the Blogosphere or Media Consolidation?
* Which serves as a better guardian of “the Fourth Estate”, the
blogosphere or the main stream media?
* Why is the main stream media attempting to demean the role of the
blogosphere and social media?

The event panel will include:

Jill Miller Zimon, who will be co-hosted this event on her blog Writes Like She Talks,
Marcia G. Yerman of The Huffington Post
Tami Winfrey Harris of What Tami Said
Deb Della Plana of Turn Left on Hypocrisy.com
Cynthia Samuels of Cobblestone Associates and Don’t Gel Too Soon
Sarah Granger of Sairy
and this humble blogger Pamela Lyn of Pam’s Coffee Conversation and Coffee, Tea & Hypocrisy

You’re invited to join on the discussion right here on Coffee, Tea & Hypocrisy.

By the way, I’m an analyst and opinion blogger who reads WaPo, the NY TImes, CSMonitor, the LA TImes and subscribes to approximately 50 other media sources and blogs. And I do tweet. Please do not rely solely on my blogs for all of your news. But please, please follow me :-)

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