Discussion of how user-led coverage ought to be. Occasional, isolated, and relatively random points:

Jarvis: On the blogs, you’ll find lots of discussion of social security and not much of Michael Jackson. In the mainstream newspapers, it’s just the reverse.

Brian Reich: There’s a generation gap here. We need to start training the younger generation in journalism. That’s the only way the news business will accept young people as credible journalists.

Lisa Stone: Don’t forget email. It’s key.

Jim Kennedy (AP): Let’s not throw journalism out. Instead lets rethink how journalism enters the culture. [Applause] [This has been Rebecca Mackinnon‘s point as well.]

Katherine von Jan (Faith Popcorn’s group): We want to hear more directly from the source of news. Plus we’re becoming a more viusal society. I don’t see how we can translate old newspapers into something relevant today.

Halley: If we could get the NY Times on XBox, we’d be there!

Jay: Sociologist Raymond Wilson said that there are no masses, only ways of seeing people as masses. There are ways of talking to people as masses, and those ways have histories. For journalists to survive as socially significant creatures, their function lies in engaging and addressing people as a public. The notion that we’re going to continue to be “consumers” is in my view retrograde.

Me: I think we’re seeing a growing bifurcation between commoditized news that is aggregation-fodder and personalized views that reflects ideas/events through individual interests and viewpoints. The problem facing the news media is that they’re stuck in the middle. [Technorati tag: media]

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