Jay Rosen:
You don’t own the eyeballs. You don’t own the press, which is now divided into pro and amateur zones. You don’t control production on the new platform, which isn’t one-way. There’s a new balance of power between you and us. The people formerly known as the audience are simply the public made realer, less fictional, more able, less predictable. You should welcome that, media people. But whether you do or not we want you to know we’re here.
I can’t wait for they day when they think this is obvious.
Does this mean that Jay Rosen didn’t do such a good job educating all of these journalists when they were in his program at NYU?
[...] Via buzzmachine [...]
[...] For years, the H-T and papers around the world, have assumed a responsibility for telling the reader what news is most important. In the new media age we live in, the group formerly known as the audience (thanks Jeff Jarvis) knows what the news is; there is no more ”traditional media monopoly.” [...]