Why They Hate Us, and How They’ve Become Us

The revolution will not be tweeted. At least that’s what we journalists hope.

While the mainstream media were sleeping, complacent with the one-way stream of information that flowed from behind the wizard’s curtain, the Internet awoke.

Interesting take on the relationship between online media and old journalists

Citizen journalism, through the power of the Internet, easy-to-understand wikis and social networks, has changed the “people formerly known as the audience” into important, information-wielding contributors to what’s happening in our world and how people learn about it.

What was once us-telling-you has now become an all-you-can-tweet buffet of information.

We know you hate us. Some years, journalism tops the list of the least respected careers.

Read More: By Lauren Keith, Lawrence Journal World