Tell ‘Em What to Think
“Reprehensible,” said White House spokesman Scott McClellan. Rush Limbaugh thundered, “This is the kind of thing that ought to force him to resign in disgrace.”
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Readers who believe what they’re told to believe would have been foaming. But other readers like to make up their own minds, and they must have noticed the missing fact–namely, what the FBI agent had said in the e-mail Durbin read to the Senate. The Tribune didn’t report that. (On Saturday it would get around to it.) Here’s the entire passage:
Citizen Kane, Meet Citizen Joe Blow
But citizen journalism aims to develop a B list–or is it a C list or a D list? There’s a new cable-TV operation in San Francisco called Current that Al Gore is behind, and though the San Francisco Chronicle didn’t make the concept very clear in a recent article, in broad strokes here it is: the public submits videos, watches excerpts on a Web site, and votes on which ones to broadcast. “Citizen journalism,” said the Chronicle, “is based on the idea of average people dictating news coverage by creating news reports themselves or helping choose the content.”
James Weinstein, 1926-2005
