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Gannett Co., the nation's largest newspaper chain, plans to create stories with information from bloggers, people who post in Internet discussion groups and other non-journalists in hopes of winning readers from the Internet, television and other news sources"
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Becks & Posh
Is this a GOOD thing? Will they be a splog? Will they get permission from these blogs and commenters on BBS/discussion boards?
ReplyDeleteKnowing Gannett, I do not have the greatest confidence in the impartial use of these information resources.
Interesting, though I really couldn't understand what they meant from reading the article. I don't know if it's a good thing. Probably not good for their reporters, as I imagine the scenario is probably a lot like what Willa said. Unless it's really done properly, it sounds like a way for the papers to get free content, but many citizen-contributors might not mind, I guess. I, for one, think it's too bad to see newspapers go the way of the dinosaur. Maybe this could be a good attempt to be part of the much more dynamic conversation that is going on on the internet.
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