Citizen Journalism, not perfect, just good enough
Interesting little citizen journalism dust up created by blogger Grayson Daughters, who goes by the handle Spacey Gracey.
She took on the role of a citizen journalist who wants public information, but she acted more like a citizen than a professional journalist. Her shortcoming, she asked a state office for public information and thought that would be enough. But alas it was not and hence the saga begins. Her citizen journalism call for action, and it is a good one, can be found here, but the real interesting dialog of citizen vs. professional can be found in the comments to this blog post.
Here is the comment I like the best:
… for all of you who have an issue with the way Spacey went about getting the info, give me a break. She did what any NORMAL citizen who has a question would do. … She knew the information was supposed to be public and was being told it was not. If it had been me, I would have then demanded the information. The point is that we, as citizens of this state, should not have to jump through some arbitrary hoops to get answers to our questions or requests for information.
April 29th, 2007 at 8:56 am
Don’t know why I thought it might be easy to “commit” citizen journalism… you’ve really got to dig in, especially in this state! I’m still at it; we’ll see what the next week holds. But I think MSM is working on some of the same issues. The more the merrier I’ve always said. Whatever beams any sunshine into how our state government is fuctioning right now, I’m all for. Just really, really wish local news was more onbaord on covering local politics. They’ve got so many great resources, and seem to just waste ‘em all literally standing in traffic, over head in traffic, or on ambulance & police-scanner chases.
April 29th, 2007 at 8:57 am
Don’t know why I thought it might be easy to “commit” citizen journalism… you’ve really got to dig in, especially in this state! I’m still at it; we’ll see what the next week holds. But I think MSM is working on some of the same issues. The more the merrier I’ve always said. Whatever beams any sunshine into how our state government is fuctioning right now, I’m all for. Just really, really wish local news was more onboard for covering local politics. They’ve got so many great resources, and seem to just waste ‘em all literally standing in traffic, over head in traffic, or on ambulance & police-scanner chases.
April 29th, 2007 at 8:57 am
Don’t know why I thought it might be easy to “commit” citizen journalism… you’ve really got to dig in, especially in this state! I’m still at it; we’ll see what the next week holds. But I think MSM is working on some of the same issues. The more the merrier I’ve always said. Whatever beams any sunshine into how our state government is fuctioning right now, I’m all for. Just really, really wish local TV news was more onboard for covering local politics. They’ve got so many great resources, and seem to just waste ‘em all literally standing in traffic, over head in traffic, or on ambulance & police-scanner chases.