Editor and Publisher on AngryJournalist.com
March 3rd, 2008 | by Brad King |I’ll be honest, posting my talk on the site today brought a bit of trepidation. It’s never good to put your views out there, even when your gut tells you that you’re right. Or mostly right as I like to say. (Or often wrong, never in doubt as my dad likes to say.)
It’s particularly nerve-wracking when I can’t post my fact checks to the piece, which mainly revolve around expanding on points about Technology Review that I didn’t quite have time to delve into during my talk (and which frankly I was probably a bit too flip about).
Still, it’s nice to see Editor & Publisher discussing a new website, AngryJournalist.com, where my brethren in the news industry are complaining about much of what I talked about in my lectures. Particularly that those at the top don’t understand the massive wave of change happening in the social media sphere.
That’s a trend I noticed in many posts, especially those that commented on the rise of new media and the fall of traditional media. There’s concern among the ranks that today’s news executives lack the vision to steer their organizations across the chasm, and journalists who claim to understand the way forward are held back by those still in power.
Much of the reason I left the media had to do with the constant fighting I had to do to convince people that 1) the Web wasn’t the cultural gutter and 2) Read/Write doesn’t mean the traditions of journalism come crashing down.
