Comments on: How Tiger took our eyes off the ball http://wemedia.com/2009/12/09/how-tiger-took-our-eyes-off-the-ball/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-tiger-took-our-eyes-off-the-ball The Power of Us Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dale Peskin http://wemedia.com/2009/12/09/how-tiger-took-our-eyes-off-the-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-9814 Dale Peskin Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:42:06 +0000 http://wemedia.com/?p=4908#comment-9814 Peter, Thanks for the comment and sitting me straight about my leap. Indeed, "traditional" was the adjective I placed before "intermediaries." I stand by the point but regret suggesting that you somehow missed it. Which is not the case at all. Actually, we quite agree. Apologies, shared here. Dale Peter,

Thanks for the comment and sitting me straight about my leap. Indeed, “traditional” was the adjective I placed before “intermediaries.” I stand by the point but regret suggesting that you somehow missed it. Which is not the case at all. Actually, we quite agree. Apologies, shared here.

Dale

]]> By: Peter Shane http://wemedia.com/2009/12/09/how-tiger-took-our-eyes-off-the-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-9813 Peter Shane Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:07:04 +0000 http://wemedia.com/?p=4908#comment-9813 Dale, Thanks so much for this story and for taking notice of my HuffPo piece. I can't help but notice, however, that you have misread me in a way that seems to infect a great many conversations I hear these days about journalism and new media. You write: "I take the point, as should all journalists, but I think Mr. Shane misses it. Citizens are now better prepared than traditional intermediaries . . ." Where did *I* say, "traditional??" You made that leap; I did not. I specifically wrote: "These journalists may be citizen journalists. They may work for community foundations. They may be graduate students. They may work for Huffington Post or any of our local, regional, or national media outlets." I could have continued . . . they could be teenagers or senior citizens, professionals or amateurs, etc., etc. Champions of new media too quickly conflate comments about the need for intermediaries with nostalgia for traditional institutions. I am not nostalgic. But I do think it is important that some group of skillful people engage with information on a sustained basis to help foster public understanding of the ever-increasing tidal wave of information washing over us. That's what I meant by intermediaries. I am guessing that these people will be organized in a wide variety of formal and informal institutional arrangements, some of which will and some of which will not resemble traditional media. Dale, Thanks so much for this story and for taking notice of my HuffPo piece. I can’t help but notice, however, that you have misread me in a way that seems to infect a great many conversations I hear these days about journalism and new media. You write: “I take the point, as should all journalists, but I think Mr. Shane misses it. Citizens are now better prepared than traditional intermediaries . . .” Where did *I* say, “traditional??” You made that leap; I did not. I specifically wrote: “These journalists may be citizen journalists. They may work for community foundations. They may be graduate students. They may work for Huffington Post or any of our local, regional, or national media outlets.” I could have continued . . . they could be teenagers or senior citizens, professionals or amateurs, etc., etc. Champions of new media too quickly conflate comments about the need for intermediaries with nostalgia for traditional institutions. I am not nostalgic. But I do think it is important that some group of skillful people engage with information on a sustained basis to help foster public understanding of the ever-increasing tidal wave of information washing over us. That’s what I meant by intermediaries. I am guessing that these people will be organized in a wide variety of formal and informal institutional arrangements, some of which will and some of which will not resemble traditional media.

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