Hey, why don’t you expand your act and head over to Julliard–tell the students they’re wasting their money because all they have to do is record their music (no matter how good they may be) and post it on the internet. Because anyone’s a musician regardless of training or ability, right? Anyone who wants to be.

Go scam another newsroom into thinking they’ll make more money by using your patented system (”give everyone a camera, because skill doesn’t matter in photography, and make every cameraman a reporter, because everyone’s a writer”).

Or maybe you can find another way to rip off the American public like you did charging VOA so much for your expertise that the GAO even noticed.

This idea that “everyone’s a journalist” has been around for centuries.

It is called “gossip.” Now the internet allows everyone who wants to gossip to have their own outlet to do so.

But to try to legitimize them with this utopian idea that they’re all equally valid sources of information is just dumb.

I didn’t say we are not making money. We just aren’t getting rich at this moment. We are able to make a living and do this full-time.

Also, I executive produce, write, direct and edit JETSET - I am not just the “host.”

Hopefully those in town will make it to the panel I’m on today, New Media 101!

Wow. A roomful of ostriches.

Pop & viral news is great for water cooler conversations…. but there needs to be a balance between those stories, and social/society relevant stories. At a personal / local level and expanding outward, the news that needs to be covered should be the news that effects us at both levels.

“The audience finds themselves agreeing with a videoblogger who says she’s not a journalist”… Are they agreeing out of self-defense?

somebody argued with rosenblum?

i’d bet that’s a first.