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Citizen journalism and the delay of an election
Posted Colin Byrne on October 8th, 2007 | Filed under Current Affairs, Politics, Technology, The Media
On Friday I twittered (my first ever use of THAT particular verb), jokingly, that I was setting up a Facebook group called ‘A November election was always a crap idea’. By Sunday morning it seemed I had a whole host of potential members. Not that any of the three Brownite inner circle fingered in today’s press was the name journalists mentioned to me as the guy going round whipping up the early election rumour.
Anyway, there won’t be one, and given that there doesn’t need to be one until 2010, it’s back to business as usual.
A lot of media stuff to chew over today. Jeff Jarvis writes in Media Guardian of the ‘iPod moment’ arriving for newspapers, defining an ‘iPod moment’ as when newspaper publishers can make some real money out of their online activities to counterbalance declining ad sales and circulations with the prints.
Jeff talks enthusiastically about adapting the media to new technology like the iPhone, smartphone and similar pocketable web browsers. Undoubtedly they have a present and growing role in our news and media consumption, though I think I if read the six or seven newspapers I read this morning on a screen the size of a matchbox, I might have a bit of a migraine by now.
Also in Media Guardian I read that my old colleague from my Labour Press Office days, Gez Sagar, is launching CampaignTV an internet TV channel dedicated to giving a platform to ‘progressive politics’. It looks really good with excellent production values. Gez says he was partly motivated by the lead right-of-centre bloggers and new media folk had taken and partly by a desire to give the left another outlet besides the traditional media (not to mention millions of leaflets that nobody reads).
This came up over dinner in Blackpool last week with Jonathan Sheppard who runs Tory Radio, a pro-Conservative internet radio site. Sites like these don’t claim to provide impartial media interviews, but do give platforms for ministers and shadow ministers (many of whom would wait months to get the ritual three minutes roasting on The Today Programme if at all) to be a bit more reflective and discursive on policy ideas. They are citizens’ journalism for those who want to govern us citizens, but would like to talk to us in more than soundbites and political knockabout. Jonathan has even attracted his first paying advertiser. Go for it Gez.
October 8th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Hi Colin
I added my thoughts on CampaignTV at the weekend: http://simoncollister.typepad.com/simonsays/2007/10/campaigntv—ho.html
The elft definitely needs a solid offering to counter Webcameron and 18Doughty St but at the moment CampaignTV ain’t it.
It delivers content that actively engages users. The content is too over-produced and essentially uninteresting…. of course it’s early days yet but there were two good models to base itself on.
October 10th, 2007 at 1:33 am
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October 10th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
Citizen journlism has been almost thrust upon the mainstream media – with Sky now even having a regular slot for what’s happening on the bloggers – with bloggers providing the picks from the Sky studio.
For politics what better way of getting your message across than for a candidate, MP, or pressure group to put it out themselves.
There are those who think audio is quite old fashioned (a criticism which could be aimed at Tory Radio) however I still think audio can be very powerful, and audio podcasting in the political arena will be an area of growth in the months ahead.