Dan Gillmor is author of We the Media, a book about technology and the development of grassroots journalism.
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"We're going to be seeing much more of this because things like this are going to be increasingly covered, not just in photos but also on video, " says Dan Gillmor, author of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People.
It is important that we rethink our approach to the situation we witness in the media and the rising statistics we are faced with.
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"The lesson we in the media have learned from the web and blogs is that the highest virtue of the media is transparency, " he says.
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We in the media risk forcing them to tame all their opinions until they are so bland as to be dishonest.
Mr. NYHAN: You know, we thought about that and actually - in our second set of experiments, we change the media source.
Since these stories often have unintended consequences, we ask the media, particularly at this early stage of the investigation, to exercise caution and attempt to verify information through appropriate official channels before reporting.
Frankly, a lot of pollsters, myself included, think the media spends too much time on polling, and we think that the media spends too much time - not NPR.
And then the next thing the announcement said was that it discouraged employees from reading the piece in The Washington Post before even mentioning that if we received any questions from the media that we should direct them to our management.
Yet, finding the informational paper clip in the dustbin is still so much of what we in the trusted media do for our audience.
Aside from where the media went to school, we see a difference in what the media studied in school: journalism was the most-represented major at News Foo, but the liberal arts, collectively, predominated.
Similarly, in the new Internet age that we live in, the media can offer the nation a better understanding of the plight of immigrants who are living in this country and the kinds of problems that legislation can redress.
The media said we had broken apart at that point and I had said back to the media, no.
We ask that the media respect the privacy of his family, and allow them to grieve.
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"We must notify the media organization in advance unless doing so would pose a substantial threat to the integrity of the investigation, " it said.
Dr. HAYES: And so I think we have to keep repeating that, even if we physicians and the media start sounding like a broken record.
Today we have the mainstream media who also uncritically accept the prevailing views, choosing their opinions by popularity, dull-mindedness, or opportunism rather than by reason.
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He says that while we, the national media, love a good scandal story, voters often make their choices based on - wait for it - the actual issues, and if they feel they know the candidate they're voting for.
"We also hope the media will also represent a kind of monitoring over these elections, " said IECI spokesman Fareed Ayar, explaining that members of the media would be issued a special badge so they could move freely between polling stations.
We upped the ante in December when we opened the doors to our Social Media Listening Command Center, which allows us to monitor over 22, 000 daily posts related to Dell as well as mentions on Twitter using the analytics tool Radian6.
What was put out by the press was just a story, like so many stories we see in the mainstream media these days.
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The question is will the media say we are heroes or bums the following day.
This is when we read and hear in the media about a possibility so much we begin to accept it as reality.
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Following the luncheon, we waxed on the explosion in media-hosted events and conferences, and the growing role they play for generating revenue for content companies.
As new FOIA cases address the issue of whether and under what circumstances bloggers can be considered representatives of the news media, we may revisit the issue and will keep you apprised of our views on the matter .
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As to the referral itself, we have seen or heard the media ask members the largely rhetorical question: Are you saying that lying under oath or obstruction of justice is not an impeachable offense?
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"It's sweeping the nation, we're in all the nationals, we're in all the redtops, we're in everything and all the papers and media are talking about Histon, " he said.
"I have to say we were unprepared for the amount of media attention that we are getting, " said Lisa Pott, mother of Audrie's three younger siblings.
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