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Live-blog Event: The Value, or lack of, in Blogging and Social Media?


Many thanks to Tami Winfrey Harris of What Tami Said for already posting about tomorrow night’s live-blog event, The Value, or lack of, in Blogging and Social Media? I’ll be posting the live-blog frame post tomorrow but here’s what you need to know if you’d like to join in:

Now that a number of prominent newspapers like the Philadelphia Inquirer and Rocky Mountain News have either declared bankruptcy or announced that they are shutting down, there has been a backlash in main stream media against the blogosphere, micro-blogging sites like Twitter and, other forms of social media.  

A few interesting articles/posts that appeared over the weekend included:

Chicagoland’s “Come Back to Tell You All …”

and the New York Times’  What Are You Doing? Media Twitterers Can’t Stop Typing in which Meet the Press’ David Gregory referred to Twitter as a “marketing tool.”

The Twitter bashing became particularly intense last Friday when MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer and Carlos Watson spent most of their afternoon segment making jokes about “tweeting” and Bill Maher devoted his closing monologue to blaming Twitter and the blogosphere for the demise of “real journalism.”

After conducting a quick poll of a few fellow bloggers and Twitter contacts, Pam at Pam’s Coffee Conversation detected a healthy interest in holding a live blog discussion on the journalistic merits of blogging and social media.  

The discussion is being sponsored by The Political Voices of Women Blog

Confirmed Panelists include: 

Jill Miller Zimon of Writes Like She Talks (I’m co-producing the event)
Marcia G. Yerman of The Huffington Post
Joanne Bamberger of PunditMom
Tami Winfrey Harris of What Tami Said 
Deb Della Plana  of Turn Left on Hypocrisy.com
Cynthia Samuels of Cobblestone Associates and Don’t Gel Too Soon 
Sarah Granger of Sairy

Topics will include:

  • Is there  Journalistic Value in Blogging and Social Media?
  • Was it the Blogosphere or Media Consolidation that lead to the decline of print media?
  • Which serves as a better upholder of “the Fourth Estate”, the blogosphere or the main stream media?
  • Why is the main stream media attempting to demean the role of the blogosphere and social media?

Plan to add your voice to the discussion.

Also good to know:

We’ll be using CoverItLive live and the event will be broadcast live on here as well as at Pamela’s home on Hypocrisy.com, Coffee, Tea & Hypocrisy.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:23 pm March 4th, 2009 in Announcements, Blogging, Business, democracy, live-blog, Media, social media, Writing 

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