8 de agosto de 2006

A hora dos amadores

A hora dos amadores – jornalismo sem jornalistas, de Nicholas Lemann em The New Yorker. Absolutamente a não perder (fazendo coro com o António Granado).

Na melhor das hipóteses, «the content of most citizen journalism will be familiar to anybody who has ever read a church or community newsletter—it’s heartwarming and it probably adds to the store of good things in the world, but it does not mount the collective challenge to power which the traditional media are supposedly too timid to take up».

Na pior – bem, não vale a pena falar agora da CPeAB Central da Propaganda e Alienação Blogosférica que domina as charts.

Quem não decorar – ou pelo menos citar respeitosamente – o parágrafo final de Lemann não é (proto-)jornalista não é nada: «Journalism is not in a period of maximal self-confidence right now, and the Internet’s cheerleaders are practically laboratory specimens of maximal self-confidence. They have got the rhetorical upper hand; traditional journalists answering their challenges often sound either clueless or cowed and apologetic. As of now, though, there is not much relation between claims for the possibilities inherent in journalist-free journalism and what the people engaged in that pursuit are actually producing. As journalism moves to the Internet, the main project ought to be moving reporters there, not stripping them away».

Publicado em 8 de agosto de 2006 às 15:06 na coleção Miscelânea