Comments on: How UGC on the MSM should and shouldn’t be done http://doctorvee.co.uk/2007/02/23/how-ugc-on-the-msm-should-and-shouldnt-be-done/ Not a real vee Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:47:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ryan Morrison http://doctorvee.co.uk/2007/02/23/how-ugc-on-the-msm-should-and-shouldnt-be-done/comment-page-1/#comment-60063 Ryan Morrison Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:22:07 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/2007/02/23/how-ugc-on-the-msm-should-and-shouldnt-be-done/#comment-60063 Not sure if you listen to the Digital Planet podcast or not but this week they have a UGC special and there is some interesting discussion about the role of 'citizen journalists' compared to 'real journalists' and how UGC can and should be used. Basically it should be used to show the side of the story the journalist can't or the images the photographer or camera man can't get (person on train after terrorist attack) and that's it really. Other than that the news services should be 'joining the conversation' and pointing people to places on the web where people are telling their own stories and leave the rest of the news service for actual news produced and researched by journalists. Not sure if you listen to the Digital Planet podcast or not but this week they have a UGC special and there is some interesting discussion about the role of ‘citizen journalists’ compared to ‘real journalists’ and how UGC can and should be used.

Basically it should be used to show the side of the story the journalist can’t or the images the photographer or camera man can’t get (person on train after terrorist attack) and that’s it really.

Other than that the news services should be ‘joining the conversation’ and pointing people to places on the web where people are telling their own stories and leave the rest of the news service for actual news produced and researched by journalists.

]]> By: Loz http://doctorvee.co.uk/2007/02/23/how-ugc-on-the-msm-should-and-shouldnt-be-done/comment-page-1/#comment-59500 Loz Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:46:19 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/2007/02/23/how-ugc-on-the-msm-should-and-shouldnt-be-done/#comment-59500 This is the real problem I had with 24 hour news services and why I try to stop watching them as a default when there's nothing else on. Stuff happens twenty-four hours a day, news doesn't. With perhaps the exception of the American news channels on the afternoon (our time) of the September 11th 2001 attacks, 24 hour coverage of even unfoulding events is normally at the rate of 58 minutes of filler and maybe 30 seconds of new information an hour, if the viewer is lucky. This is the real problem I had with 24 hour news services and why I try to stop watching them as a default when there’s nothing else on. Stuff happens twenty-four hours a day, news doesn’t. With perhaps the exception of the American news channels on the afternoon (our time) of the September 11th 2001 attacks, 24 hour coverage of even unfoulding events is normally at the rate of 58 minutes of filler and maybe 30 seconds of new information an hour, if the viewer is lucky.

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