If only pipsqueak dust was as magical as fairy dust.
Two pipsqueaks sitting around talking |
Hattip to Jay Rosen and Chris Geidner for the heads up about this video, posted this morning and featuring Plain Dealer news impact editor, John Kroll. Kroll responds to reactions to Reader Representative Ted Diadiun’s video from last week, which was about reaction to Connie Schultz’s column from the week before that. (I’ll have a separate post about today’s video.)
To recap: Connie wrote about a plan suggested by proposals written by a First Amendment lawyer and his brother, who is an economist. Their last name is Marburger. John Temple, former editor and publisher of the now-defunct Rocky Mountain News, has several blog entries posted with links to primary sources and first-person exchanges with lawyer Marburger, in chrono order:
Before journalists go too far lobbying Congress…
Connie Schultz v. Jeff Jarvis…
Lawyer central to Connie Schultz column speaks out… (primary documents attached)
Read how the lawyer central to Schultz’ column has to say about what happened, what he thinks…
In an extreme nutshell, the plan involves the re-assertion of copyright in a way that some readers (including journalists) found to be unacceptable and overreaching, but also of limited value to the plight of newspapers and provocative to the work and passion of many who produce content for the Internet. The best place to start, for seeing reaction to Connie’s column, is at her columns (the first and the follow-up) in the comments and at Jeff Jarvis’s post. A google search on “Schultz Marburger” gets you more.
My reax to everything before today’s video:
At a minimum, bloggers can’t do it all (I give credence to the expense, need and value of investigative journalism, particularly overseas) and online-only outlets aren’t accessed – still and will not be for the foreseeable future – by significant portions of the U.S. population. A time of transition in news gathering, production and consumption started more than fifteen years ago and will continue for the foreseeable future – but news doesn’t stop happening and news gathering and production and consumption doesn’t stop either.
However, other than saying that Dick Feagler’s December 2005 column about blogs was the meanest thing I’d ever read (he eventually had me on his television show twice so I think that’s kind of a retrenchment in itself), I’ve refrained from name-calling. And Ted should have too.
Read the rest of this post at Writes Like She Talks.