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ugottabkidding wrote: So is the 'new media' an anonymous forum on a computer where the authors have little responsibility to be completely accurate in what they write.
Please don't get me wrong, I think Newswire has certainly provided a service to the community, but it's awfully easy for the vast majority of posters to get on here, contribute 'tips' or comments and sneak back into their holes.
I understand that a lot of people here are well known and do use their names, but a large number do not. The 'traditional media' can and certainly does use anonymous sources but the reporter generally needs to know who that person is so that their credibility can be determined.
Would some of those ambulance drivers have been so quick to comment for the record in the RN-T, or have their voices be used in a soud byte on radio. Probably not.
So...again, kudos to Jerry but let's hold off on a Pultizer, or Nobel or Peabody
You sir or madam whatever the case may be apparently are confusing the RomeWired.com with RomeNewswire.com.
One is a forum where people in the area come to discuss, vent, argue, agree, laugh at or cry over things going on around them. Like a group of people getting together at a family reunion or social function and talking about what has been going on around them and catching up sometimes on things they may have missed along the way.
The other is a news organization as is Rome-Times Tribune, Topix.com, New York Times, RomenewsbyWatson, News Week or the National Enquire. The quality of each is disputed by all depending on your stance but are news organizations none the less and are there to deliver what ever news that they deem worthy of their time and money to print.
Although RomeNewswire provides the means for RomeWired to operate, it in no way means that the news side of the association is dependent on the forum or discussion side. Hearing something on the forum and then doing an article on it in the news section is similar to overhearing something at your local Wal-Mart and then investigating and reporting on what you overheard. It doesn't relieve the news media folks from the investigation, verification, and follow-up, nor I'm sure do anyone that posts on the forum side consider themselves part of the media, news gathering community or reporters. One has a liability issue, the other has none except their own conscious on things said.
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