A great wrap-up of proceedings from the Future of Media Summit by Stephen Collins.
Among other things, the consensus that the “split” between professional journalists and bloggers is “artificial”, emerged.
The false dichotomy of the schism between the professional journalists, journalism educators and academics and the world of new media, particularly as embodied by bloggers prevails. It seems largely perpetuated by a somewhat chauvinistic attitude on the part of some professional journalists who cling to the notion that a blogger, no matter how good a writer and reporter of information that they might be, is still something to be looked down upon as a non-professional by large parts of the profession of journalism.
