When you think of champions for blogs, you think Dan Gillmor, Doc Searls, Mark Cuban. But Rupert Murdoch? ... Murdoch is portrayed as a traditionalist, an arch-conservative, a tyrant. Yet in a speech last night to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, he sang blogs' praises and exhorted his audience to stop whining about them and get on board. According to "(Young people) don't want to rely on a God-like figure from above to tell them what's important. And to cary the religion analogy a bit further, they certainly don't want news presented as gospel. "Instead, they want their news on demand, when it works for them. They want control over their media, instead of being controlled by it. They want to question, to probe, to offer a different angle. "Think about how blogs and message boards revealed that Kryptonite bicycle locks were vulnerable to a Bic pen. Or the Swiftboat incident. Or the swift departure of Dan Rather from CBS. One commentator, Jeff Jarvis, puts it this way: give the people control of media, they will use it. Don't give people control of media, and you will lose them." Murdoch spoke on other ways the newspaper business is missing the online boat. The entire article's an eye-opener, including the bit where Murdoch admits his own mistake in not moving fast enough to embrace the Net. Corante also has Shel Holtz is principal of a shel of my former self
Blogs' latest champion: Rupert Murdoch
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