Audio Activism

Dan Gillmor today points to a story in USA Today by Philip Meyer, a UNC School of Journalism professor. [Yeah Chapel Hill!] Meyer says, “The old media aren’t getting worse. They’re just getting humble.” I hope he’s right…it seems this is really a race against the clock. Bloggers and technology are moving way faster. Either big media “gets it” or they get ignored.

Doc Searls provides a link to Jim Thompson’s blog. Jim’s post “Quote of the Day” is by Bill Moyers. “We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we’ll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we’ll not save democracy from its own inertia.”
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