Can Bloggers Lead Charge to Issue Oriented Journalism?
In an earlier blog I mentioned Jeff Jarvis’s Op-Ed piece on the possibilities for good that the Rather, National Guard, Bush memo can actually do to lead us towards issue oriented journalism.
Jarvis himself is giving it a stab with his new blog series he calls appropriately enough Issues2004. He says in part:
I’ll write my wish list on the issues: health care, homeland security, Iraq, and so on.
But note importantly: I do not pretend to be expert in any of these areas nor to have reported on any of them. That’s just the point: I’m a voter. I want experts and reporters to tear into the candidates’ stands and I want the campaigns to talk about their stands so I can learn more — and so I can join in the debate and, as a whole and in the longrun, so we can pressure candidates on these issues.
Take a look at his first Issues2004 issue Health care.
