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Convergence: How Technology Has Changed News

Start: 18 Oct 2007 - 9:10am

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I will be appearing as a panelist in the "HOT TOPIC" panel at Fair Media Council's Connection Day (PDF).

Hot Topic!
Convergence: How Technology Has Changed News
Today, you get your news delivered straight to your cell phone, you listen to podcasts and watch streaming video on your local news radio web site. Find out how all the technological advances that enabled these new news delivery methods impact the types of stories you get in the news, as well as how the inner workings of newsrooms are changing to accommodate your unquenchable thirst for information.
With:

Carl Corry, Executive Producer, News12.com
Ethan Dreilinger, Product Manager, CBS Mobile News
Luke Funk, Sr. Web Producer, myfoxny.com
Liza Sabater, Blogdiva & Publisher, CultureKitchen.com

Fair Media Council is a New York metro area not-for-profit media watch organization that educates and advocates for quality local news coverage.

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Run, run as fast as you can! The almighty powerful bloggers attack!

Yesterday I attended Fair Media Council's "Connections Day". I was one of the participants in the Blogging: The Power of Citizen Journalism panel.

I had a blast because I finally met Bob Cox, founder of the Media Bloggers Association and Steve Safran of Lost Remote. Bob is the patron saint of bloggers and Steve? Well, as you can see by his energy in this post, he's Bob's so-good-yet-evil twin.

As Steve points out, the debate was rather agitated and it went from, how can blogs be used by disseminate your message to the "we still own the media and you bloggers suck" debate. The three of us agreed we are in a transitional period at the moment, because the rules of engagement through reading and writing are changing.

Here's what I get from the discussions we had during the panel and afterwards:

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Words to live by

They dance and strip for free while some jerk-off makes a fortune selling videos of them. Looking dumbfounded when she learned that the girls don't get paid for their exposure, Oprah remarked, "Okay, that really is stupid." No kidding.

But, wait! It gets worse. It is not just that women are exploiting their bodies "for free", they are forking out tons of money to look like all the women they see on television. Oprah had four teenagers from Florida on the show. These young girls spend thousands of dollars to imitate celebrity styles and one is already planning on getting breast implants. Are these young women just a rare exception? Come on. Who hasn't spent a ridiculous amount of money on highlights, or bikini waxes, or some other please-make-me-be-sexy type thing?

We are literally buying into our oppression. People are profiting off the exploitation of girls and women, and then taking our money as we each try to add up to the narrow formula of sexy that bombards us.

— Polly Jones, blogger
Marginal Notes: Stupid Girls, Big Bucks