Comments on: Bystander Journalism http://blog.photoblogs.org/2005/07/29/bystander-journalism/ The Photoblogs.org Blog. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:10:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: the farmers wife http://blog.photoblogs.org/2005/07/29/bystander-journalism/#comment-11034 the farmers wife Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blog2.photoblogs.org/?p=671#comment-11034 I work for a news organization and can you that in general they seem frightened to death of the blogging phenomenon, as if bloggers will steal their thunder or something. You will notice they cannot even utter the word "blogger" or "photoblogger", as if they're dirty words. They've created the terms "bystander journalists" or in the case of the broadcast media, "citizen journalists" as if they need to legitimize it in some way. Anyone else noticed this? I work for a news organization and can you that in general they seem frightened to death of the blogging phenomenon, as if bloggers will steal their thunder or something.

You will notice they cannot even utter the word "blogger" or "photoblogger", as if they're dirty words. They've created the terms "bystander journalists" or in the case of the broadcast media, "citizen journalists" as if they need to legitimize it in some way.

Anyone else noticed this?

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