Comments on: Back to the Future of Journalism http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/02/back-to-the-future-of-journalism/ now with extra source Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:24:54 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Tom McLoughlin http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/02/back-to-the-future-of-journalism/#comment-4011 Tom McLoughlin Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-4011 Serious talent there. Gratitude to ABC for giving me a seat as a local blogger 'content creator' as charity case. Highly instructive for an amateur in the 'pro am' mud wrestle. Meg Simons sections were top grist. Jay Rosen was fantastic from a blogger perspective but avoided the sinister alternative dystopic possibility too: Raised today with venerable Phillip Myer who referenced Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World were indeed serious warnings. The suggestion he was responding to involved the technology now (eg Imac laptop installed camera) allowing a two way screen, then imagine the fairly small step to the govt being on the other side of that camera with a few small Acts of Parliament. Couldn't happen? Well let's just say there may yet be a need for the spirit of the late 17C pamphleteers, or in the 21C this would involve ... the offline ink and press of ... newspapers! So methinks press will always be valued not least as insurance against totalitarianism if ever needed. Serious talent there. Gratitude to ABC for giving me a seat as a local blogger ‘content creator’ as charity case. Highly instructive for an amateur in the ‘pro am’ mud wrestle. Meg Simons sections were top grist. Jay Rosen was fantastic from a blogger perspective but avoided the sinister alternative dystopic possibility too: Raised today with venerable Phillip Myer who referenced Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World were indeed serious warnings. The suggestion he was responding to involved the technology now (eg Imac laptop installed camera) allowing a two way screen, then imagine the fairly small step to the govt being on the other side of that camera with a few small Acts of Parliament. Couldn’t happen? Well let’s just say there may yet be a need for the spirit of the late 17C pamphleteers, or in the 21C this would involve … the offline ink and press of … newspapers! So methinks press will always be valued not least as insurance against totalitarianism if ever needed.

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