Analysis of the Jurnalism Citizen Media Blog, The Blogger, Journalism and Journalists

Bloggers vs. Journalists is over. That declaration Jay X back since January 2005. X is a journalism professor at New York University as well as author of a new horizon regard journalism.

“The problem now is not whether blogs can be journalism. Sometimes it can be. The problem now is not whether bloggers are journalists. Sometimes so.”

Almost senada with it is through ujaran Enda Nasution essay Journalists Are Bloggers =? Enda decided, “Not all bloggers are journalists and not all bloggers are journalists.” But Jay ujaran X and Enda Nasution vonis not debate over this issue.

In fact, until December 2007, still have no words that memojokkan blogger (citizen journalist). Former NBC correspondent, David Hazinski, through his writings in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution describes the trend of dependency on the television station reports to citizen, citizen journalism. For example, video posts such as non-professional program in iReports on CNN. In Indonesia, I have Witness in Metro TV.

Hazinski but also journalism professor at the University of Georgia. According to him, the difference between journalists and most of the news in a phone recording selulernya lies in the education, skills and standards. “Information without journalistic standards is called gossip,” simpulnya.

Robert Cox, president of Media Bloggers Association, said, bloggers tend to be deliberately provocative and sometimes hyperbolic. In fact, batch article can trap them, from the matter of slander, copyright infringement to privacy.

In Indonesia, Roy Suryo, of course, spokesperson for the opposition stronghold of rough / blogger outs, although then introduce pemilahan between good and bad bloggers. Conversely, there are a declaration that all people can be a journalist.

Washington lawyer, Scott Gant, unfurl argument through the book titled, We’re All Journalists Now year 2007. Sub-title, The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of the Law in the Internet Age.

Basically, the idea, the freedom of the press is now not only traditional media monopoly, but also anyone who uses mobile phone, camera and video blogging software and other technology to report news and opinions to the world.

According to Ann Cooper, a title that may be more accurate to the book, though less sexy, is We Can All Be Journalists, If and When We Choose to Be. Ann Cooper teaches at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. He was also the newspaper reporters, magazine and National Public Radio as well as executive director of the Journalist Protection Committee (Committee to Protect Journalists).

Through this is Ann Cooper, the debate two snapshots stronghold on my reading. Prior to the instigation, Cooper illustrates the trend concerning the traditional media journalists who also blog (somehow contains news and opinion) in the United States. Among others, journalists newspaper The New York Times at nytimes.com, and The Washington Post newspaper on washingtonpost.com.

In Indonesia, it is not difficult to find examples. Not all print media journalists blog, for example, only contains a re-posting the news that they have termuat in the medium. There are also many that contain sensitive, so no news termuat, unprinted stories.

Well, Ann Cooper goal to bring this debate is not melanggengkannya but try to find the middle road. He agreed on the idea of Jay’s X back in 2005. That is, the matter of marriage between the need to things the best of both stronghold for more quality journalism.

X via Cooper breathe term hybrid in the process, I meminjamnya recklessly as hybrids. So, as hybrid maize and the big winner, journalism is the best cross of the two would be the citadel of journalism to become a hybrid berkualiteit, quality.

“But (journalism) hybrid that requires sincere collaboration between old and new practitioners are serious about efforts to stabilize journalism and its mission to serve the public,” write Ann Cooper.

According to him, (body) the traditional media must repudiate some of the attitudes and assumptions no longer relevant, while the (body) need to absorb new media journalistic standard that can bring credibility and trust in this new journalism.

How the ideal model of cooperation that? How that is going on in the United States? Is it also happening in Indonesia? I will be happy to receive feedback concerning this.